Metadata: Metadata
- Artist | Manufacturer:
- Unknown maker
- Title:
- Headpiece
- Date:
- Creation: 1800 (?) - before 1893
- Inventory Number:
- 1898-013/057
- Collection:
- Non european collections
- Domain:
- Africa
- Arts and Crafts
- Designation:
- Headpiece
- Iconography:
- Bivalvia
- Material | Technique:
- Mixed technique; Leather; Seashell; Glass bead; Animal hair; Silks
- Measurements:
- Diameter (Ø): 6 cm
- H x L x P: 6.5 x 18 x 21 cm
- Weight: 61 g
- Description:
- Composed of a strip of leather long enough to surround the head, decorated along its entire length with kauri shells; a small pendant attached to one of the sides consists of five small pieces of leather bearing small white glass beads. The whole is adorned with a tuft of hairs, or rather yellowish bristles still attached to the skin. - Descriptive inventory by Nicolas Van Werveke of the Spring ethnographic collection. N.B.: this is a faithful transcription of Van Werveke's inventory, the terms used in 1898 have not been modified, even those whose use is considered critical today.
- Location:
- Depot
- Acquisition method:
- Donation
- Acquisition date:
- 1898
- Copyright:
-
Work: Public Domain
Image(s): CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) | Tina Pfeifer / MNAHA
Metadata: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
- Photographer:
- Tina Pfeifer
- Metadata last updated on:
- 10.09.2025
