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Breast jewellery

Rotang braid with split boar's teeth, nassa snails woven on, red and black seeds glued on; worn by men, part of a festive costume or as war jewellery

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Data Provider
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Cataloguing data

Object type
Schmuck
Dimensions
L 28 cm W 21 cm
Material/Technique
rattan, Nassa snail, Eberhauer
Object genre
jewellery
Current location
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Inventory number
JGU ES 58
Other number(s)
58 (Old inventory number)

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic study collection
  • Production
    where
    Berlin Harbour
    Papua-Neuguinea
    Neuguinea
    Melanesien
    Ozeanien
    Pazifik
    Description
    Supplement to the location: under German colonial rule: Berlinhafen
  • Change of physical control:
    Not clarified
    when
    before September 1909
    where
    Papua-Neuguinea
    Neuguinea
    Melanesien
    Ozeanien
    Pazifik
    who
    Wahnes, Carl - Owners
  • Change of physical control:
    Purchase
    when
    29.06.1953
    where
    Mainz
    Rheinland-Pfalz
    Deutschland
    who
    Schneider, Edith - Sellers
    Description
    E. Schneider (Neu-Isenburg) sold eight properties to JGU Mainz.

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Legal status metadata
CC0 1.0 DEED
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