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basket

Rectangular shape with a handle that spans the two long sides. The material is thick strips of pandanus, which run transversely as well as longitudinally, overlapping each other crosswise. The lid occupies the entire surface except for the width of a strip that forms the rim. The handle is covered with longitudinal stripes on the outside. Around it run transverse stripes that overlap with longitudinal stripes in a crisscross pattern on the outside. The longitudinal stripes are made of a darker material. 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
baskets (containers)
Dimensions
General: 28 × 30 × 16 cm
Material/Technique
Pandanus leaf
braided
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D05501
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D05501

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1905
    where
    Samoa
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

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