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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
Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

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

Provenance and sources

  • Change of legal title:
    Donation
    when
    March 1932
    who
    Frau Konteradmiral Maria Katharina Schönfelder - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    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
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

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