Production
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1880 - 1908
Photographer: Axel Killian | Rights management: Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Box made of turtle shell
This tortoise shell was inventoried as a powder compact. The Herero women used the container to store dried buchu, a plant used as a herbal remedy with antiinflammatory and antiseptic properties, or cosmetic ointments made from fat and ochre clay pigment/iron-based clay. The wearing of such a container was probably part of the representative clothing of a Herero woman.
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Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Baster
- Object type
- Dose
- Dimensions
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Width: 60.0 mm
Height: 80.0 mm - Material/Technique
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Fur, Leather, Turtle shell
- Current location
- Museum Natur und Mensch
- Inventory number
- I/0774
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Change of legal title:
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18.08.1910
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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Namibia (location/origin)Africa (location/origin)
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Africa
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- CC0 1.0 DEED
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