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Bowl

Data Provider
Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Schüssel
Dimensions
Width: 200.0 mm
Height: 120.0 mm
Length: 600.0 mm
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1351

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1900
  • Change of legal title:
    Donation
    when
    24.04.1900
    who
    Brandeis, Eugen - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Micronesia (location/origin)
    Oceania (location/origin)
    Marshall Islands (location/origin)
    who
    Brandeis, Antonie - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania
Provenance
Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) April 1900, collected by Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit) /Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) April 1900, collected by Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit) Object no. 23 (Object list Antonie Brandeis, 1st consignment April 1900, SAF D.Sm 35/1): "A wooden hollow. Chebi. Breadfruit tree wood" Additional comment: "The outer rind of the ripe breadfruit is scraped off with a sharp shell and then placed in the sea. Once the fruit has softened, it is thoroughly kneaded with the hands in hollow no. 23." (in: "Bemerkungen zu den dem Museum zu Freiburg /B. übersandten ethnologischen Gegenständen aus den Marshallinseln. South Seas". SAF D.Sm 35/1). According to the collector, this object comes from the Marshall Islands. This is also how it was recorded in the old inventory book. On the index card from 1968, however, it was grouped together with two other bowls which, according to the collector, came from Nauru, but according to the index card all came from the Marshall Islands.

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