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Haarpen
This object was collected by the German linguist G.A. Krause (1850-1938). He was the first European to visit the Dogon area. He left Accra in 1886 on a journey to Tombouctou. However, he never reached this destination. In Bandiagara, the capital of the Dogon area at that time, Tijani, the ruler of the Toucouleur, refused him permission to travel on to Tombouctou. He did, however, collect a number …
Type of item
- Object Type: hairpin
- hairpin
- Hairpin
Date
- 1850/1880
Medium
- Material: brass
- brass
- Brass
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1880/1889
Provenance
- 1889-10-23
- Aankoop
Identifier
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/668758
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- ambergris
- wax
- hair (material)
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