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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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Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
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Object type
Korb
Dimensions
Breite: 17 cm, Höhe: 11 cm, Tiefe: 16 cm
Material/Technique
Pandanus leaf, Banana bast
braided
braided
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
023332
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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