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Pouch with medicine

Bag with 2 braided handles, on the front four front with four sticks studded with colourful beads, the one in the top left corner upper left corner has a cowrie scroll in each corner and 2 small beaded handles. pearl handles

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Data Provider
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Nso
Object type
Amulett
Dimensions
L 12 cm / W 10 cm
Material/Technique
Raphia (genus), Glass bead, cowrie shell hand-sewn, braided, Bead embroidery
Object genre
Miscellaneous
Current location
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Inventory number
JGU ES 2394
Other number(s)
2394 (Old inventory number)

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic Study Collection
  • Production
    where
    Region Northwest, Cameroon, Central Africa, Africa
  • Change of physical control:
    Robbery
    when
    before 1903
    where
    Cameroon, Central Africa, Africa
    who
    Houben, Hans - Role not clarified
  • Change of physical control:
    Donation
    when
    1903
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Description
    H. Houben donated the object to the Linden Museum.
  • Change of physical control:
    Exchange
    when
    15.12.1971
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Former Owners
    Description
    JGU Mainz received object in exchange with Linden-Museum.

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