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vessel

The bottle has a spherical base with a long, straight neck protruding from it. The base is white with a dark cross pattern, and the neck is decorated with red, white, and black.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
containers (receptacles)
Dimensions
General: 28.5 × 13 cm
Material/Technique
Coconut shell; parinarium putty; bamboo cane; paint; plant fibre
hollowed out; drilled; painted; carved
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D08250
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D08250

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1913
    where
    Admiralty Islands
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Ludwig Cohn - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections
Secondary literature
Ohnemus, Sylvia: Zur Kultur der Admitalitäts-Insulaner in Melanesien, Basel, 1996, S. 214f

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