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Basket
Apart from the simple baskets and bags woven from coconut leaf that are still in use today, Sāmoans mainly used baskets made of wrapped coconut leaf ribs. Text: Ulrich Menter
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Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
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Object type
Korb
Dimensions
Breite: 29.5 cm, Höhe: 9 cm, Tiefe: 27.5 cm
Material/Technique
Coconut leaf rib, Pandanus leaf
braided
braided
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
023331
Provenance and sources
when
around 1900
where
Samoa
when
1902
Provenance
The object is part of an extensive donation by Wilhelm Solf (1862-1936), who was a colonial official in Sāmoa from 1898 and was governor of the colony of German Samoa from 1900 to 1910. The exact circumstances of the acquisition by Solf are not yet known.
Text: Ulrich Menter
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