Production
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when
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around 1890
Photographer: Axel Killian | Rights management: Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Photographer: Axel Killian | Rights management: Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Figure
The carved figure has a round head, a flat face and a long body. It is wearing an apron made of palm leaves and its face is characterised by a beaming smile. The grinning mouth is a typical feature of Tolai figurative depictions. Laughing faces embody the tabaran, ancestral spirits well-disposed towards man. This type of figure was probably used in ritual dances of the iniet male secret society.
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- figures (representations)
- Dimensions
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Height: 730.0 mm
Width: 120.0 mm
Depth: 100.0 mm - Material/Technique
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Leaf, Colourant, Wood, Carving
- Current location
- Museum Natur und Mensch
- Inventory number
- II/0846
- Related object(s)
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Change of legal title:
Purchase-
when
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16.07.1896
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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New Britain (formerly New Pomerania) (location/origin)Kuanua (location/origin)Papua New Guinea (location/origin)Bismarck Archipelago (location/origin)Melanesia (location/origin)Gazelle peninsula (location/origin)
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Oceania
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- Legal status metadata
- CC0 1.0 DEED
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