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Necklace

Composed of beads made from metal and strung on leather and plant fibre strings. Text: Sandra Ferracuti.

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Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
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Cultural attribution
Herero
Object type
Kette
Dimensions
Länge: 123 cm
Material/Technique
Plant fibre, Iron , Leather
Forged, braided, knotted, lined up
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
034610

Provenance and sources

when
around 1900 or earlier

where
Namibia

when
1900
Provenance
Gustav Pahl worked between 1898 and 1908 in "German South-West Africa". He acquired and bought objects during longer business trips, as he reported in letters to Graf von Linden. He did not specify whether he acquired these objects from middlemen or the producers. Text: Christoph Rippe.

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