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smo titi made from woven and dyed pandanus fibers, Label says: titi. The upper part is like a belt and decorated with green, red and orange triangles. How did the object come to the Übersee-Museum? The collection was purchased by the museum from Otto Tetens in 1907. Tetens was director of the Samoa Observatory of the Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen in the colony of German Samoa from 1902 to 1905. Nothing is yet known about the exact circumstances of Tetens' acquisition on site.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
worn costume accessories
Dimensions
General: 80 × 32 × 2 cm
Material/Technique
Pandanus leaf; hibiscus fibre; pigment
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D05382
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D05382

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1905
    where
    Samoa
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED

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