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B00672 Leg jewellery

30 rows of beads, which are threaded onto strings to form chains, are held together vertically with inlaid dark brown leather strips. There is one row of beads between each of the narrow leather strips. There are two shorter leather strips on the sides, which are integrated into the lower 8 bead chains. The metal beads are silver-coloured, individual beads are discoloured in different shades of brown.

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Herero
Object type
Beinschmuck
Dimensions
General: 3 × 18 × 35 cm
Material/Technique
Iron (OB:Metal)
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
B00672

Provenance and sources

  • Collecting
    who
    August Engelbert Wulff (1878 - 1952)

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED
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