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Brass bangles

Index card "Hollow casting, wax thread technique for the model. Elegant, moving lines. Represents a chain of snake heads arranged in pairs, each looking in opposite directions. The convex surface consists of 22 snake heads in 2 rows."

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Bamun (Bamum, Mamum, Bamoun, Mamoun, Mamoum)
Object type
Brass bangles
Dimensions
Height: 3,1 cm
Depth: 9,3 cm
Width: 11,1 cm
Weight: 0,236 kg
Weight: 0,221 kg
Height: 3,1 cm
Depth: 9,4 cm
Width: 11,4 cm
Material/Technique
Brass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 25181 a,b

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1900 (um)
    where
    Cameroon
    Grassland
    who
    Bamun (Bamum, Mamum, Bamoun, Mamoun, Mamoum)
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase from Dr Ankermann 1909
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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