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Shield

Data Provider
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Maasai
Object type
shields (armor)
Dimensions
1208 x 431 x 115 mm
Material/Technique
Wood; leather; pigment; Binder, organic; Fibre, vegetable
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 9107
Other number(s)
RJM 1899/01 (Convolute number)

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Tanzania
    Africa -> East Africa -> Tanzania
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa
  • Change of physical control or legal title:
    Purchase
    when
    14.5.1884
    where
    Bazaar in Mombasa
    who
    Händler "Hindu" - Sellers
    Joest, Wilhelm - Buyers
    Source(s)
    Diary XV, p. 40 "We let ourselves be led to the bazaar. Bazar, where the Dr found a friendly reception with a Hindu + had Massai things dragged together."

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