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Gunpowder horn

Yellow tusk as base with wooden elongated top. String attached 2 metal rings, many flat white shells, 1 glass retangualr bead and 1 round horn bead. Small tassles of red, white, yellow & green beads from the ends of the string.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Gunpowder horn
Dimensions
Height: 38 cm
Diameter: 2,5 cm
Material/Technique
Shell , Glass, Wood, Metal , Plant fibre
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
I C 21904

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Indonesia
    Lesser Sunda Islands
    Southwest Timor
  • Collecting
    who
    Franz Hermann Strauch (1846-04-11 - 1928-08-12) - Collectors
    S.M.S. Gazelle
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    South and Southeast Asia

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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