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Basket

While baskets made of coconut leaves and wrapped coconut leaf ribs were mainly used in everyday life, baskets like this one were made mainly for sale to travellers. Text: Ulrich Menter

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Korb
Dimensions
Width: 17 cm
Height: 11 cm
Depth: 16 cm
Material/Technique
Pandanus leaf, Banana bast braided
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
023332

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Solf; 0524
  • Production
    when
    around 1900
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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