Canoe model | Photographer: Michaela Dempf | Rights management: Museum Ulm
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalCanoe model | Photographer: Michaela Dempf | Rights management: Museum Ulm
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalCanoe model | Photographer: Michaela Dempf | Rights management: Museum Ulm
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalCanoe model | Photographer: Michaela Dempf | Rights management: Museum Ulm
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalCanoe model | Photographer: Michaela Dempf | Rights management: Museum Ulm
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalCanoe model | Photographer: Michaela Dempf | Rights management: Museum Ulm
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Boat-shaped bowl, so-called "finola", from the Kaniet Islands. The bowl has an oval basic shape with pointed ends on both sides, which are surrounded by openwork carvings. There are six slits on each of the outer sides. The edges and rims are decorated with notched cuts. Several twisted coconut fibre cords extend from one end of the bowl to the other. The cords run parallel to the centre, where they are partially crossed and joined together or bundled by a braid. Finolas are carrying bowls that were used on the Kaniet Islands to transport various utensils such as betel accessories, fishing hooks and other personal items. They were used exclusively by men. The openwork carvings on the ends resemble the decorated bow and stern of the Kaniet canoes. The coconut fibre cords were intended as handles on the one hand and to prevent objects from falling out on the other. Large examples of the finola (up to one metre long) were also used at birth ceremonies to wash the newborn in. The object comes from the collection of the pharmacist, writer and doctor Albert Daiber (1857 - 1928), who travelled to German and British colonial territories from April to September 1900. Stops included Australia, the Bismarck Archipelago, the eastern part of the island of New Guinea, the Caroline and Mariana Islands and China (Hong Kong). He described his experiences in the travelogue "Eine Australien- und Südseefahrt" from 1902. Albert Daiber emigrated to Chile in 1909. Before that, he handed over the objects he had collected on his journey to Otto Leube in Ulm, who initially kept the collection and then donated it to the Museum of the City of Ulm as a deposit after Daiber's death in 1930.
