Production
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when
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End of the 19th century
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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.
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Breast jewellery
- Dimensions
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Width: 230.0 mm
Height: 255.0 mm - Material/Technique
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Wet snail, Seeds, Boar's tooth, Plant fibre, Resins, Cord
- Current location
- Museum Natur und Mensch
- Inventory number
- II/0014
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Change of legal title:
Purchase-
when
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13.10.1898
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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Papua New Guinea (location/origin)Melanesia (location/origin)Oceania (location/origin)Aitape (location/origin)
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Oceania
- Provenance
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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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