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Plant material
Plant material
Material derived from plants
In the 19th century, jewellery fashioned of gold and human hair was highly valued for its personal character. A note accompanying this necklace states that the hair in it belonged to H.M.A.F. Teding van Berkhout-van Slingeland and to her youngest child, F…
Women attached this decorated headband to their heads and then draped a headscarf over it so that the fringe and decorations of the headband were still visible. This type of headband was also worn by Berber women in the Draa Valley (southeastern Morocco),…
The bracelet probably served as an amulet. Bracelets like this were worn to ward off illness and disaster. To this end grisgris, a magical substance, was incorporated into the leather strap. \Grisgris is a substance composed of various ingredients, such …
The bracelet consists of a core of vegetable fibres (flexible/slap) around which a number of strands of blue and one strand of red glass beads are spirally wound.
A hairband that serves to attach the hair extensions of a youngster in the ewati age group. For the hair extensions see Tropenmuseum inv. nos. 504-1 to 5. This hairband bears traces of aniline paint, a Western product.
The material is woven on a horizontal roller loom.
Along the edge of a piece of gourd shell there is a braided cord. This runs further as a necklace. On the top there are resin remains, indicating an original decoration with probably coix pits etc.
The fruit shells used here are from the Sapinda.
Description Hairband consisting of a piece of braided rope in which black hair is woven.
The fibre tissue is referred to in Java as kadut. Another name is agel.