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Forehead jewellery

Main catalogue: "Forehead jewellery. Leather with iron. 5 strands of drawn iron beads, leather bars. 2 leather plates with iron beads, 1 shell [diam.] 21 cm Herero"

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Herero
Object type
Forehead jewellery
Dimensions
Weight: 0,4 kg
Height: 3 cm
Width: 20,5 cm
Depth: 20 cm
Material/Technique
Leather , Metal , Pearls , Shell
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III D 4824

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Namibia
    who
    Herero
  • Collecting
    who
    Elisabeth Richert - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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