Zemanek-Münster

Bridal belt ·  Angola, Ovambo · ID: 3038490

Vendu 1 600 €
Provenance
Northern German Private Collection, collected in situ in the 1950’s during employment of the collector with Woermann, Hamburg

Description

leather, ivory, red pigment, leather band, sewn with six “omakipas” of variable shape and size (oval, pyramidal, square), min. dam., fine cracks through age;
the number of “omakipa” badges a young man gave his fiancée depended on his wealth and the number of cows he owned. Even the incised patterns had a special meaning.


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