Bilum | Photographer: Larissa Arlt, JGU Mainz
Attribution 4.0 InternationalBilum | Photographer: Larissa Arlt, JGU Mainz
Attribution 4.0 InternationalBilum
Mesh pocket
Belly net bag made of plant fibres using the loop technique, back side in one colour, front side in three colours and decorated with three rows of coix grains and 5 large shells, the upper edge and the holder are crocheted, loose cord with a blue bead and white shell remnants
- Data Provider
- Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Asmat
- Object type
- Tasche
- Dimensions
- without holder 20 x 20 cm; tapering towards the top
- Material/Technique
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Plant fibre, Grass seed, seashell
braided, crochet (needlework)
- Object genre
- clothing and accessory
- Current location
- Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
- Inventory number
- JGU ES 2079
- Other number(s)
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Linden-Museum: 6160 (Old inventory number)
2079 (Old inventory number)
Provenance and sources
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Assignment to a curated holding:
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Production
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when
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before 1899
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where
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Berlin HarbourPapua-NeuguineaNeuguineaMelanesienOzeanienPazifik
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Description
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Supplement to the location: under German colonial rule: Berlinhafen
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Change of physical control:
Not clarified-
when
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before 1899
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where
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Papua-NeuguineaNeuguineaMelanesienOzeanienPazifik
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Change of physical control:
Not clarified-
when
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1899
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where
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StuttgartBaden-WürttembergDeutschland
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Change of physical control:
Exchange-
when
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15.12.1971
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where
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StuttgartBaden-WürttembergDeutschland
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Description
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Came to Mainz "together with 636 other objects in exchange for 732 objects from Pakistan and Afghanistan" (Brandstetter, Hierholzer 2018).
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Information about the record
- Legal status metadata
- CC0 1.0 DEED
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