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Headgear (Chief, Dance)

Index card "Dance cap. Stiff brim. Cord braid overlaid with dark blue cotton fabric and red woollen fabric. Bead pattern: light blue, dark blue, black. (Orig: Ang: bag with beads)"

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Bamun (Bamum, Mamum, Bamoun, Mamoun, Mamoum)
Object type
Headgear (Chief, Dance)
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 51 x 35 x 10 cm (mit Troddeln und innenliegender Polsterung)
Objektmaß: 29 x 35 x 2 cm (ohne innenliegende Polsterung und Troddeln)
Material/Technique
Textile, Glass beads
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 23744

Provenance and sources

when
1900 (um)
where
Cameroon [Land]
who
Bamun (Bamum, Mamum, Bamoun, Mamoun, Mamoum)

who
Glauning, Hans - Collectors
Kaiserliches Gouvernement für Kamerun - Former Possessors

Description
Purchase / Estate of the Imperial Government for Cameroon 1910

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