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Bowl <vessel>

The large wooden bowl is shaped like a bird with head, tail feathers, wings and feet. Wooden bowls were commonly used as food bowls in everyday life. Such elaborately carved containers were used primarily on ceremonial occasions.

Data Provider
Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Cataloguing data

Object type
Schale
Dimensions
Höhe: 330.0 mm, Durchmesser: 740.0 mm
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1959 a

Provenance and sources

when
March 1932
who
Frau Konteradmiral Maria Katharina Schönfelder - Former Possessors

where
Admiralty Islands (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)
Melanesia (location/origin)
Papua New Guinea (location/origin)
Bismarck Archipelago (location/origin)
Manus (location/origin)
who
Konteradmiral Victor Schönfelder (10.03.1856 - 23.12.1931) - Collectors
Konteradmiral Victor Schönfelder (10.03.1856 - 23.12.1931) - Collectors

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