Nose jewellery | Photographer: Axel Killian
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Nose jewellery
Asmat men and women from southwestern New Guinea wear jewellery of this kind as a piercing through the nasal septum. The nose pins were made from human, pig or cassowary bones.
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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Cultural attribution
Asmat
Object type
Nose jewellery
Dimensions
Länge: 140.0 mm, Durchmesser: 23.0 mm
Material/Technique
Bones
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/2156
Provenance and sources
when
13.12.1971
who
Privatbesitz - Former Possessors
where
New Guinea (location/origin)
Asmat (location/origin)
Melanesia (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)
Papua (location/origin)
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