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Breast jewellery

The breastplate is made of a rattan braid and decorated with boar tusks, nassa snail shells, plant seeds and fringes. On ceremonial occasions, these insignia denoting rank were worn by men in Papua New Guinea.

Data Provider
Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Breast jewellery
Dimensions
Width: 230.0 mm
Height: 255.0 mm
Material/Technique
Wet snail, Seeds, Boar's tooth, Plant fibre, Resins, Cord
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/0014

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    End of the 19th century
  • Change of legal title:
    Purchase
    when
    13.10.1898
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Papua New Guinea (location/origin)
    Melanesia (location/origin)
    Oceania (location/origin)
    Aitape (location/origin)
    who
    Beirer, Robert - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania
Provenance
Robert Beirer acquired the object during the German colonial period in Papua New Guinea (1884-1914), where he was in the service of the Imperial Navy for the New Guinea Company from 1893 to 1896. It is not known how he came into possession of the object.

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Legal status metadata
CC0 1.0 DEED
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