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Ceremonial Headdress ("Ekori") for a Married Woman

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At the time when this object was dispatched to Stuttgart, similar head adornments were among the most highly valued personal possessions of married women in Herero societies. Exclusively worn on special occasions, they also served to indicate the social standing of their owners. Text: Sandra Ferracuti.

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Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Herero
Object type
Haube
Dimensions
Length: 119 cm
Width: 10.5 cm
Material/Technique
Plant fibre, Iron, Leather Forged, cut, knotted, sewn
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
028018

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Lübbert; 0538a
  • Production
    when
    around 1900 or earlier
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Namibia
Provenance
Dr. Anton Lübbert initially sent the collection to the Ethnological Museum in Berlin on the basis of the so-called Bundesrat resolution of 1889. Before it was forwarded to Stuttgart, Felix von Luschan selected and sorted the material there. In German South-West Africa, Lübbert had objects procured through "his collectors". Only a few months after the outbreak of the Herero-German War, in September 1904, Lübbert wrote to Linden that "it is already almost completely impossible to get Herero items". He had therefore "had the last stocks, which were in the hands of farmers and traders, bought up". Text: Christoph Rippe.

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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED

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