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Belt
Commentary by Nzila M. Mubusisi (National Museum of Namibia): This type of belt is typical of the Herero, like the headdress (ekori, S.L.), similar to the "kaross" (cf. RPM_V 1390, 1391). According to her, you see a lot of this jewellery at today's cultural festivals.
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Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim gGmbH
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Cultural attribution
Herero
Object type
Jewellery
Dimensions
L: 55 cm; B: ca. 5 cm
Object genre
Ethnographica
Current location
Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim
Inventory number
RPM_V 1389
Provenance and sources
when
Late 19th/early 20th century
where
Africa, Southern Africa, Namibia
who
unbekannt - Former Possessors
when
Not clarified
where
Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim
who
Not clarified
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