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The upper top has a curved edge with a hook which leads to a smooth side. On the other side are 20 "teeth". The handle is also made from wood. The nifo oti is decorated with white coloured symbols like triangles. How did the object come to the Übersee-Museum? The collection was purchased by the museum from Otto Tetens in 1907. Tetens was director of the Samoa Observatory of the Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen in the colony of German Samoa from 1902 to 1905. Nothing is yet known about the exact circumstances of Tetens' acquisition on site.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
clubs (weapons)
Dimensions
General: 63 × 3 cm
Material/Technique
Wood; coconut fibre
carved
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D05632
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D05632

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1905
    where
    Savai'i
  • Publishing
    Description
    Oceania Collection Voyages - Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/people/Oceania-Collection-Voyages/100083002609221/ (last accessed on: 11.04.2024)
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
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