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Container for Body and Hair Cosmetic Butter

Data Provider
Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Bergdama
Object type
Gefäß
Dimensions
Length: 17 cm
Width: 8 cm
Material/Technique
Horn, Fur, Glass , Leather cut, pierced, sheathed, threaded, knotted
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
110299

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Maag; 0985
  • Production
    when
    around 1923
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Namibia
Provenance
The collection came into the museum on loan in 1923, and shortly before his death in 1932, Maag donated the collection to the museum. According to the information in the new acquisitions book, Maag "collected [all objects] himself in situ". Text: Christoph Rippe.

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Legal status metadata
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