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Leg jewellery
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Leg jewellery
Dimensions
Weight: 0,1 kg
Height: 6,2 cm
Depth: 12 cm
Width: 12 cm
Material/Technique
Snails (cowries, Cypraea moneta), Plant fibre (coconut)
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 38453 a

Provenance and sources

when
before 1912
where
Melanesia
Northeast New Guinea
Middle Sepik
Kararau
Papua New Guinea
who
Sepik-Expedition (Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss Expedition) - Collectors
Description
Purchase from Sepik Expedition around 1912

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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