Bililik

Language: Austronesian
Language: Austronesian

Hip jewellery

Hip cord twisted from plant fibre and set with two rows of nassa snails, hanger with 7 rows, also set with nassa snails, 9 teeth attached in the middle, part of a conus snail (cone snail) attached at the lower end, three cords with glass beads (blue, yellow, red, white) on each side.

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Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Cataloguing data

Object type
Körperschmuck
Dimensions
L 48 cm
Material/Technique
Plant fibre, Nassa snail, , Glass bead, Conus snail
turned, threaded
Object genre
jewellery
Current location
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Inventory number
JGU ES 1642
Other number(s)
1642 (Old inventory number)

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic study collection
  • Production
    where
    Insel Siar
    Madang
    Astrolabe Bay
    Papua-Neuguinea
    Neuguinea
    Melanesien
    Ozeanien
    Pazifik
  • Change of physical control:
    Not clarified
    when
    1888-1904
    where
    Papua-Neuguinea
    Neuguinea
    Melanesien
    Ozeanien
    Pazifik
    who
    Bergmann, Karoline (1864 - 1952) - Owners
    Description
    K. Bergmann acquired the property together with her husband Gustav Bergmann.
  • Change of physical control:
    Donation
    when
    1950
    who
    Bergmann, Karoline (1864 - 1952) - Donors
    Description
    Karoline Bergmann donated 13 objects to JGU Mainz.

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