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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Tolai
Object type
Neck jewellery
Dimensions
Height: 12,6 cm
Width: 17,2 cm
Depth: 4 cm
Weight: 2 kg
Material/Technique
Glass, Mussel shell , Textile, Snail shell, Plant fibre , Tooth (Kuskus ?), Coconut shell
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 1462

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1875
    where
    Melanesia
    New Britain
    Gazelle Peninsula
    Blanche Bay (Blache Bay, Blache Bai)
    Papua New Guinea
    who
    Gunantuna
    Tolai
  • Collecting
    who
    Franz Hermann Strauch (1846-04-11 - 1928-08-12) - Former Possessors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Access unknown, by Franz Hermann Strauch around 1876
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

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Legal status metadata
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