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The ivory bangle is decorated on the outside with 4 punched rings (outside: punched with 4, inside: punched with 5 lines). The punched holes are filled with metal.

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Yoruba
Object type
Jewellery
Dimensions
D: 11 cm
Material/Technique
Ivory
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Ethnologische Sammlung der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Inventory number
ESG_Af 2111
Other number(s)
Berliner Inv.-Nr.: III C 2758 (Old inventory number)
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Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Before 1885
  • Change of physical control or legal title:
    Unknown type of acquisition
    where
    Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Lagos
    who
    Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control or legal title:
    Donation
    when
    1939
    where
    Ethnological Collection of the Georg-August-University Göttingen
    who
    Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin (heute Ethnologisches Museum Berlin)
Secondary literature
Bestandskatalog Afrika (IV) der Ethnologischen Sammlung der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (hrsg. von P. Fuchs/ G. Krüger, Göttingen 1993), online unter https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/617641.html

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Legal status metadata
CC0 1.0 DEED

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