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Knee strap

Data Provider
Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim gGmbH Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Herero
Object type
Jewellery
Material/Technique
Metal (iron)/leather (indeterminate)
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim
Inventory number
RPM_V 1377

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Late 19th/early 20th century
  • Change of legal title:
    Unknown type of acquisition
    where
    Africa, Southern Africa, Namibia
    who
    unbekannt - Former Possessors
    Description
    The knee band could possibly have formed a pair with V 1378, as the two pieces look very similar.
  • Change of legal title:
    Access
    when
    Not clarified
    where
    Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim
    who
    Not clarified
  • Exhibition
    Description
    On display in the special exhibition "Fashionable heavyweights from Namibia", RPM, 11 February 2020 to 31 January 2021

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Legal status metadata
CC0 1.0 DEED
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