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Coconut splitter

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Brown wood. Stool like with two legs. Flat seat with a burn mark on top and decorative carving on one edge. Wooden protrusions from both ends. One carved and flat the other elongated with a metal spike which has a round flat end with a serrated edge.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Coconut splitter
Dimensions
Height: 20 cm
Depth: 17 cm
Width: 59 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Metal
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
I C 21896

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Indonesia
    Lesser Sunda Islands
    Southwest Timor
  • Collecting
    who
    Franz Hermann Strauch (1846-04-11 - 1928-08-12) - Collectors
    S.M.S. Gazelle
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    South and Southeast Asia

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

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