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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.

Data Provider
Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Asmat
Object type
Nose jewellery
Dimensions
Length: 140.0 mm
Diameter: 23.0 mm
Material/Technique
Bones
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/2156

Provenance and sources

  • Change of legal title:
    Swap
    when
    13.12.1971
    who
    Privatbesitz - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    New Guinea (location/origin)
    Asmat (location/origin)
    Melanesia (location/origin)
    Oceania (location/origin)
    Papua (location/origin)
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

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