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Jewellery comb

Data Provider
Ethnologisches Museum Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Tukano
Object type
Jewellery comb
Dimensions
Height: 3,5 cm
Depth: 72 cm
Width: 33 cm
Material/Technique
Spring, Hair (monkey), Resin , Wood (palm, Oenocarpus), Plant fibre (Astrocaryum chambira), Palm fibre
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V B 5843

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Brazil
    Rio Negro
    Tiquie (Rio Tiquié)
    who
    Tukano
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase from Dr Theodor Koch in 1907
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Ethnology

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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