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Headband

Main catalogue: "Headband for women; leather with iron beads; in shape and arrangement of the iron beads like III D 2265; the bandage is worn by women, when they are mothers, around the cap "omakossi"; f. III D 1743 diam. 18 cm Herero"

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Herero
Object type
Headband
Dimensions
Height: 3 cm
Width: 18,5 cm
Depth: 16,5 cm
Weight: 0,4 kg
Material/Technique
Metal , Leather
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III D 4211

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Namibia
    who
    Herero
  • Collecting
    who
    Friedrich Joachim von Heydebreck - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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