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Rosary

Beads made from plant seeds. Text: Sandra Ferracuti.

Data Provider
Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Herero
Object type
Rosenkranz
Material/Technique
Seeds pierced, Cord, threaded, knotted
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
F 10058

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Pahl; 0049
  • Production
    when
    around 1900
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Namibia
Provenance
Gustav Pahl worked between 1898 and 1908 in "German South-West Africa". He acquired and bought objects during longer business trips, as he reported in letters to Graf von Linden. He did not specify whether he acquired these objects from middlemen or the producers. Text: Christoph Rippe.

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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