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Knee strap
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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Herero
Object type
Jewellery
Material/Technique
Metal (iron)/leather (indeterminate)
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim
Inventory number
RPM_V 1378

Provenance and sources

Production
when
Late 19th/early 20th century
Change of legal title:
Unknown type of acquisition
where
Africa, Southern Africa, Namibia
who
unbekannt - Former Possessors
Description
The knee band could possibly have formed a pair with V 1377, as the two pieces look very similar.
Change of legal title:
Access
when
Not clarified
where
Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim
who
Not clarified
Exhibition
Description
Exhibited in the special exhibition "Fashionable heavyweights from Namibia", RPM, 11 February 2020 to 31 January 2021

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