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Decorative ornamentation, extending from shoulder blades to chest, head with beak-like nose (pierced septum), beard or facial frame, implied headdress, figure standing on tiptoe

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Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Cataloguing data

Object type
Figurine
Dimensions
H 34 cm
Object genre
sculpture
Current location
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Inventory number
JGU ES 2101
Other number(s)
Linden-Museum: 92716 (Old inventory number)
2101 (Old inventory number)

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic study collection
  • Production
    when
    before 1912
    where
    Sepik-Region
    Papua-Neuguinea
    Neuguinea
    Melanesien
    Ozeanien
    Pazifik
  • Change of physical control:
    Not clarified
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Owners
  • Change of physical control:
    Not clarified
    when
    1912/13
    where
    Papua-Neuguinea
    Neuguinea
    Melanesien
    Ozeanien
    Pazifik
    who
    Berliner Sepik-Expedition 1912/13 - Owners
  • Change of physical control:
    Exchange
    when
    15.12.1971
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Former Owners
    Description
    Came to Mainz "together with 636 other objects in exchange for 732 objects from Pakistan and Afghanistan" (Brandstetter, Hierholzer 2018).

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CC0 1.0 DEED

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