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Penis sheath
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Penis sheath
Dimensions
Gewicht: ca. 0,1 kg
Objektmaß: 49 x 10 x 4,5 cm
Material/Technique
Plant fibre , Plant material
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 40252

Provenance and sources

when
before 1912
where
Melanesia [Großregion]
Northeast New Guinea [Insel/Region]
Middle Sepik [Fluss/Gebiet]
Jentschemangua [Dorf]
Papua New Guinea [Land]

who
Sepik-Expedition (Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss Expedition) - Collectors

Description
Purchase from Sepik Expedition around 1912

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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