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"Woman and girl of the Karajá with bast aprons"

Caption Ehrenreich 1891 (see lit.): "Karaya. Men and women (of the fourth village of the Šambioa). 2. woman and young girl with the bast apron, the front corner of which is pulled through to the back, as both individuals have just risen from the ground (see p. 11). The background of both groups forms one of the large buriti fibre mats mentioned on pp. 20 and 21."

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Karajá (Iny Karaja)
Object type
positives (photographs)
Dimensions
Height: 17,8 cm
Width: 12,8 cm
Height: 15,9 cm
Width: 11,5 cm
Material/Technique
mounted on cardboard
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VIII E 1211

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1888
    where
    Brazil
    Rio Araguaia
    who
    Ehrenreich, Paul - Photographers
    Karajá (Iny Karaja)
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Ethnology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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