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Belt Buckle (Ekipa)
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Decorated with carvings and pyrography. Historically, in Owambo societies these kinds of ivory belt slides and buttons would be given by young men to their bride or mother as a token of their hunting prowess and accomplishments. A bride would wear it on her wedding day and the following festive days. During their life together, her husband would add clasps to the belt as his hunting successes progressed. Text: Sandra Ferracuti.

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Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Ambo
Object type
Kette
Dimensions
Durchmesser: 4.3 cm, Höhe: 1.8 cm
Material/Technique
Ivory
Fire painting, carved, pierced
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
F 52209

Provenance and sources

when
around 1970 or earlier

where
Namibia

when
1979
who
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Provenance
The origin of the object can no longer be traced due to the lack of biographical information on the person who gave the object. Text: Christoph Rippe.

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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED

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