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Nosepiece
The nasal jewelry consists of two separate, spiral-cut pieces of Cymbium shell.The ends of these are connected by peeling strips.Although this object was not collected from the Asmat but from the Auyu (Awjoe) located east of the Asmat, it is discussed here as an Asmat object.\ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊIn fact, it does not differ in form from the type of nasal jewelry called "bipanew" by the Asmat.ÊÊÊÊÊÊThe Asmat …
Type of item
- siminè
Date
- 1953
Medium
- Material: vegetable origin materials
- Material: shell
- vegetable origin materials
- shell (animal material)
- Seashell
- Plant material
Type of item
- siminè
Date
- 1953
Medium
- Material: vegetable origin materials
- Material: shell
- vegetable origin materials
- shell (animal material)
- Seashell
- Plant material
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1953
- 1953/1953
Provenance
- 1953-07-01
- Aankoop
Identifier
- RV-3070-178
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/758389
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- fur
- bone (material)
- hair (material)
- ambergris
- wood carving
Year
- 1953
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-31T16:16:09.268Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-10-20T13:51:01.552Z