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before 1884
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Bead embroidery
Cultural attribution according to the inv. book "Kaffirs"; the beads are not embroidered on a background, but the band is woven; commentary by Nzila M. Mubusisi (National Museum of Namibia): Glass beads are/were usually sewn onto leather in Namibia, but not in South Africa (Xhosa).
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Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- keine Zuschreibung
- Object type
- Clothing
- Dimensions
- W: 70 cm, H: 8.5 cm
- Material/Technique
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Glass
- Object genre
- Ethnographica
- Current location
- Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim
- Inventory number
- RPM_V 1344
- Related object(s)
Provenance and sources
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Production
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where
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Africa, southern Africa, according to the report of the Hildesheim Museum Association Angra Pequena (Lüderitz Bay), Namibia
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who
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unbekannt - Former Possessors
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Description
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Note S.L.: It is possible that this bead band and the other bead bands from the Höpfner Collection were made in South Africa and were either acquired there by Höpfner while travelling to/from Europe or in Angra Pequena by sailors on ships coming from South Africa.
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Change of legal title:
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when
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1884
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where
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Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim
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who
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Dr. Carl Höpfner
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Exhibition
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Description
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On display in the special exhibition "Fashionable heavyweights from Namibia", RPM, 11 February 2020 to 31 January 2021
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- Secondary literature
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Bericht "Verein für Kunde der Natur und der Kunst im Fürstenthume Hildesheim und in der Stadt Goslar", Zeitraum 01.01.1883-01.01.1886, Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 1886, S. 10, S. 36, dort unter Geschenken 1884: Höpfner, Dr., Afrikareisender, „Bogen und Pfeile mit eisernen Spitzen und Federn, eiserne Armspangen, Lanzenspitze, Dolch, Wurfkeule, Perlenstickereien, ein Gefäß von Holz, Kürbisflasche, Beutel und Tuch von buntem baumwollenen Stoff, sämmtlich von Angra Pequena“Kinahan, Jill, "Cattle for beads: The archaeology of historical contact and trade on the Namib Coast", Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2000
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- CC0 1.0 DEED
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