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Dance jewellery

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

Provenance and sources

when
19th century - 20th century (beginning)
where
Cameroon [Land/Region]
who
Bamun (Bamum, Mamum, Bamoun, Mamoun, Mamoum)

who
Ankermann, Bernhard - Collectors

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