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Dance jewellery

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Main catalogue: "Dance jewellery worn around the neck. Square plate, 16-17 cm tall, with a plaited thick rim of red and blue fabric, the whole framed by a long-haired strip of fur. It has a long handle covered with red stuff. On the front surface of the plate 2 bird figures in "pearl embroidery" without dimensions

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Bamun (Bamum, Mamum, Bamoun, Mamoun, Mamoum)
Object type
Dance jewellery
Dimensions
Height: 76 cm
Depth: 3,5 cm
Width: 35 cm
Material/Technique
Fur, Cotton, Glass bead
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 25613

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    19th century - 20th century (beginning)
    where
    Cameroon
    who
    Bamun (Bamum, Mamum, Bamoun, Mamoun, Mamoum)
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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