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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Abelam
Object type
Forehead jewellery
Dimensions
Height: 18 cm
Depth: 3 cm
Width: 22 cm
Weight: 0,087 kg
Material/Technique
Plant fibre , Tooth (dog), Snails (cowries, Cypraea moneta)
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 48656

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1967
    where
    Melanesia
    Northeast New Guinea
    Maprik
    Kumunugum
    Papua New Guinea
    who
    Abelam
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase from Gerd Koch 1967
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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