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Ancestor figure (man)

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Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Luba
Object type
Sculpture; Furniture
Dimensions
H: 43 cm; W: 12 cm; D: 12 cm
Material/Technique
Wood (indeterminate)
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Landesmuseum Hannover
Inventory number
LMH_ET 4588

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1905
  • Change of legal title:
    Unknown type of acquisition
    where
    Africa, Central Africa, Congo
    who
    Gustav Cohrs - Former Possessors
  • Change of legal title:
    Donation
    when
    1905
    where
    Hanover State Museum
    who
    Gustav Cohrs
Secondary literature
Alexis von Poser, Bianca Baumann (Hrsg.): Heikles Erbe. Koloniale Spuren bis in die Gegenwart, Dresden 2016.

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Legal status metadata
CC0 1.0 DEED

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