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tattooing comb

Plain wooden stick with a shark's tooth which is tied to the stick with plant fibre. How did the object come to the Übersee-Museum? The collection was purchased by the museum from Otto Tetens in 1907. Tetens was director of the Samoa Observatory of the Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen in the colony of German Samoa from 1902 to 1905. Nothing is yet known about the exact circumstances of Tetens' acquisition on site.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
tools
Dimensions
General: 23.3 x 0.9 x 1.4 cm
Material/Technique
Wood; shark tooth; plant fibre carved; drilled; rope work
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D05690
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D05690

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1905
    where
    Samoa
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

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