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ornament

The ornament consists of a white mussel shell decorated with plant fibres, pearls, feathers and hair.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
Jewellery
Dimensions
General: 16 × 3 × 22 cm
Material/Technique
mussel shell; plant fibre; wet snail; glass bead; feather; hair
drilled; braided
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D03280
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D03280

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1913
    where
    Papua New Guinea
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Arnold Fabricius - Former Possessors
    Arnold Fabricius - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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