Bilum | Photographer: Larissa Arlt, JGU Mainz
Attribution 4.0 InternationalBilum | Photographer: Larissa Arlt, JGU Mainz
Attribution 4.0 InternationalBilum
Mesh pocket
Net bag made of plant fibres using the loop technique, at the top edge: large pieces of shell, below a decorative strip with cowrie snails, koix grains and blue pearl, further down feather and mussel shell
- Data Provider
- Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Asmat
- Object type
- Tasche
- Dimensions
- 13 x 20 cm
- Material/Technique
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Plant fibre, seashell, Grass seed, cowrie shell, feather (material), pearl (animal material)
braided
- Object genre
- clothing and accessory
- Current location
- Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
- Inventory number
- JGU ES 2077
- Other number(s)
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Linden-Museum: 6098 (Old inventory number)
2077 (Old inventory number)
Provenance and sources
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Assignment to a curated holding:
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Production
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when
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before 1899
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where
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Monumbo BayPapua-NeuguineaNeuguineaMelanesienOzeanienPazifik
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Description
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Supplement to the location: under German colonial rule: Potsdam harbour
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Change of physical control:
Not clarified-
when
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before 1899
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where
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Papua-NeuguineaNeuguineaMelanesienOzeanienPazifik
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Change of physical control:
Not clarified-
when
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1899
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where
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StuttgartBaden-WürttembergDeutschland
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Change of physical control:
Exchange-
when
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15.12.1971
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where
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StuttgartBaden-WürttembergDeutschland
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Description
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Came to Mainz "together with 636 other objects in exchange for 732 objects from Pakistan and Afghanistan" (Brandstetter, Hierholzer 2018).
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Information about the record
- Legal status metadata
- CC0 1.0 DEED
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