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Necklace

Jewellery piece composed of beads made from wood and ostrich egg shells; strung on plant fibre cord. Text: Sandra Ferracuti.

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Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
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Cataloguing data

Object type
Halskette
Material/Technique
Wood, Plant fibre, Ostrich egg
ground, pierced, threaded, knotted
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
024992

Provenance and sources

when
around 1900

where
Rietmond

when
1902
Provenance
Gustav Pahl worked between 1898 and 1908 in "German South-West Africa". He acquired and bought objects during longer business trips, as he reported in letters to Graf von Linden. He did not specify whether he acquired these objects from middlemen or the producers. Text: Christoph Rippe.

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