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Door jamb

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Description of the motif from top to bottom: "Animal, human couple, animal, 2 human couples on top of each other, snake."

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Balung
Object type
Door jamb
Dimensions
Height: 248 cm
Depth: 22 cm
Width: 45 cm
Weight: 47 kg
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 23664

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1900 (um)
    where
    Cameroon
    who
    Bamileke (Bamiléké)
    Balung
  • Collecting
    who
    Glauning, Hans - Collectors
    Kaiserliches Gouvernement für Kamerun - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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