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Necklace

Jewellery piece composed of beads made from ostrich egg shells and strung on plant fibre cord. [SF]

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

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Herero
Object type
Halskette
Material/Technique
Plant fibre, Ostrich egg pierced, threaded, knotted
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
016168

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Kuhn; 0237
  • Production
    when
    around 1900 or earlier
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Namibia

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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