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Cultural attribution
Britisch-Neuguinea, Melanesien, Ozeanien
Object type
Jewellery
Dimensions
H: 1 cm, B. 26 cm, T: 26 cm
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim
Inventory number
RPM_V 894

Provenance and sources

when
before 1895

where
Oceania, Melanesia, British New Guinea, today part of Papua New Guinea
who
Georg Schmiele - Former Possessors
Description
The objects were offered in the 1899 catalogue of duplicates that could be sold, page 9, "Collection of Governor Schmiele, 126 items from Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands." Pieces from all these regions were offered as duplicates, including a spear with cassowary bone from New Ireland (No. 2, VII B 15) and a necklace with coix (No. 13, VII B 123) from Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land. In the copy of the catalogue in the Berlin duplicate file, "Hildesheim" is noted by hand for these two objects. However, the jewellery necklace V 894 with shell rings and dog teeth is neither in the list nor in the letter in which Director Andreae made his wishes known on 4 April 1899; in addition to the spear with cassowary bone and the Coix necklace, he ordered a wood carving and a shell trumpet from the Schmiele collection.

when
1899
where
Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim
who
Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin (heute Ethnologisches Museum Berlin)
Secondary literature
Lang, Sabine und Andrea Nicklisch: Den Sammlern auf der Spur. Provenienzforschung zu kolonialen Kontexten am Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim 2017/18. Mit einem Beitrag von Tristan Oestermann. Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, arthistoricum.net, 2021, S. 80-94

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