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Attachment mask from a workshop in the Babanki region; anthropomorphic mask with openwork basket on the head, spider motif

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Data Provider
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Babanki
Object type
Tanzmaske
Material/Technique
wood (plant material), pigments
carved
Object genre
ritual object
Current location
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Inventory number
JGU ES 2585
Other number(s)
Linden-Museum: 75204 (Old inventory number)
2585 (Old inventory number)

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic study collection
  • Production
    when
    before 1911
    who
    uns nicht bekannt - Role not clarified
  • Use
    where
    Region Nordwesten
    Kamerun
    Zentralafrika
    Afrika
  • Change of physical control:
    Not clarified
    when
    1900/1901-1911
    where
    Region Nordwesten
    Kamerun
    Zentralafrika
    Afrika
    who
    Diehl, Adolf - Owners
  • Change of physical control:
    Purchase
    when
    1911
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Owners
    Description
    Linden-Museum bought object from A. Diehl.
  • Change of physical control:
    Exchange
    when
    15.12.1971
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Former Owners
    Description
    JGU Mainz received object in exchange with Linden-Museum.

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Legal status metadata
CC0 1.0 DEED

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