Production
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when
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1895 - 1905
Uli | Photographer: Axel Killian | Rights management: Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Uli | Photographer: Axel Killian | Rights management: Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Uli
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Ancestor figure
Carved from a single piece of wood and up to two metres high, uli figures are typically hermaphroditic. They were related to the elaborate funerary rituals of New Ireland. Little is known about their specific meaning as they have not been used since 1930, presumably as a result of the influence of Christian missions.
- Data Provider
- Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Mandak
- Object type
- figures (representations)
- Dimensions
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Height: 1320.0 mm
Width: 260.0 mm
Depth: 330.0 mm - Material/Technique
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Plant fibre, Wood, Colour pigments, Carving
- Current location
- Museum Natur und Mensch
- Inventory number
- II/0848
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Change of legal title:
Donation-
when
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21.08.1912
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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New Ireland (formerly New Mecklenburg) (location/origin)Bismarck Archipelago (location/origin)Papua New Guinea (location/origin)Melanesia (location/origin)Oceania (location/origin)
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Oceania
- Provenance
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Naval officer Paul Werber acquired the object when he was travelling in the German colonies of Oceania on behalf of the Imperial Navy from 1910 to 1911. It is not known how he came into possession of the object.
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- Legal status metadata
- CC0 1.0 DEED
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