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Leg Adornments for a Man
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Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
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Cultural attribution
Herero
Object type
Beinkleidung
Material/Technique
Leather
cut
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
023227 a+b

Provenance and sources

when
around 1900

where
Namibia

when
1902
Provenance
In 1902 Kepler handed over 92 objects from "German South-West Africa" (Namibia), "German East Africa" and "Lagos" to Graf von Linden. In his inventory Kepler divided the part of the collection from Namibia into the groups "Herero", "Bushmen", "Hottentots", "Bergdamaras", "Basterds" and "Ovambos". The fact that the collection contains rifles and cartridge belts could point to appropriation in the context of military confrontations. Text: Christoph Rippe.

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