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The pubic protection is made of brown braided plant fibres decorated with shell slices and bones.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
worn costume accessories
Dimensions
General: 3 × 7 × 32 cm
Material/Technique
Plant fibre; mussel slice; bone
carved; plaited; drilled
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D12523
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D12523

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1913
    where
    Papua New Guinea
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Ludwig Cohn - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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