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Basket

Apart from the simple baskets and bags woven from coconut leaf that are still in use today, Sāmoans mainly used baskets made of wrapped coconut leaf ribs. Text: Ulrich Menter

Data Provider
Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Korb
Dimensions
Width: 21 cm
Height: 9.5 cm
Depth: 19 cm
Material/Technique
Pandanus leaf, Coconut leaf rib braided
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
027469

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Hengstenberg; 0498
  • Production
    when
    around 1900 or earlier
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Samoa
Provenance
This basket came into the museum's collection in 1902 as a gift from Ernst Hengstenberg. The exact provenance of the object is currently unknown. Text: Ulrich Menter

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