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penis ornament

The penis ornament consists of the shell of an ovula snail, the inner coils of which have been removed. The white snail shell is otherwise undecorated. An old paper label with the handwritten note "Nauer" is glued into the snail shell.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
worn costume accessories
Dimensions
General: 4.3 x 8.6 cm
Material/Technique
Ovula ovum shell
hewn
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D06789
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D06789

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1900-1900
    where
    Admiralty Islands
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Nauer, Karl - 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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