Drill | Photographer: Axel Killian
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Drill
Drills like this one were predominantly used for the elaborate and highly skilful craft of jewellery manufacture, such as making holes in clams and snail shells. The drill is composed of a wooden shaft with an added circular flywheel, attached to this is a shark tooth drill bit (missing here) and a string wrapped around a horizontal shaft to make the drill spin.
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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Object type
Bohrer
Dimensions
Breite: 320.0 mm, Höhe: 430.0 mm
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1369
Provenance and sources
when
before 1900
when
24.04.1900
where
Marshall Islands (location/origin)
Micronesia (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)
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. 75 (object list Antonie Brandeis, 1st consignment April 1900, SAF D.Sm 35/1): "Eine Spindel zum Bohren v. Löcher. In-in rel. wood and tip of shark's tooth". Supplementary comment: "Making shell necklaces: To drill holes in the large or small shells (sic!) one uses the ingenious spindle No. 75. The individual shells are then pulled onto bast thread 74b or interwoven with fine pandanus strips." (in: "Bemerkungen zu den dem Museum zu Freiburg /B. übersandten ethnologischen Gegenständen aus den Marshallinseln. South Seas". SAF D.Sm 35/1).
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