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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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Cultural attribution
Bamun (Bamum, Mamum, Bamoun, Mamoun, Mamoum)
Object type
Brass bangles
Dimensions
Objektmaß: b) 3,1 x 11,1 x 9,3 cm
Gewicht: a) 0,24 kg
Gewicht: b) 0,22 kg
Objektmaß: a) 3,1 x 11,4 x 9,4 cm
Material/Technique
Brass
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 25181 a,b

Provenance and sources

when
1900 (um)
where
Cameroon [Land]
Grassland [Region]
who
Bamun (Bamum, Mamum, Bamoun, Mamoun, Mamoum)

who
Ankermann, Bernhard - Collectors

Description
Purchase from Dr Ankermann 1909

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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