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hair ornament

Hair ornament made from a curved piece of bamboo, the lower half of which is undecorated and split into five sticks at the end. The other half is wrapped with yellow and red coloured plant fibres and has an end decorated with carved cut-outs and black painting. An old paper label with the handwritten note "Nauer" is located roughly in the centre.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
jewelry worn on the head
Dimensions
General: 1 × 1.2 × 32.1 cm
Material/Technique
Bamboo
carved; wrapped; painted
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D08288
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D08288

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1900-1900
    where
    Bougainville
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Nauer, Karl - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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