Box made of turtle shell | Photographer: Axel Killian
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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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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Cultural attribution
Baster
Object type
Dose
Dimensions
Breite: 60.0 mm, Höhe: 80.0 mm
Material/Technique
Turtle shell
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
I/0774
Provenance and sources
when
1880 - 1908
when
18.08.1910
where
Namibia (location/origin)
Africa (location/origin)
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