Belt | Photographer: Axel Killian
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Belt
This belt is made of twenty layers of plant leaves (banana or pandanus leaves), which are tied together with strips of bast and strips of fabric. It is secured at the ends with a sewn-on coconut fiber cord; a cord is used for tying. According to the inventory book, the belt comes from the Marshall Islands. It is unclear whether it came to the museum through the donation of Antonie and Eugen Brandeis in 1900/01.
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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Object type
Gürtel
Dimensions
Höhe: 50.0 mm, Durchmesser: 400.0 mm
Material/Technique
Leaf
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1302
Provenance and sources
when
before 1900
when
22.11.1901
where
Marshall Islands (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)
Micronesia (location/origin)
Provenance
The provenance of this object is unclear. According to the index card from 1968, the object came to the museum from the Marshall Islands as part of the 2nd Brandeis consignment in November 1901. However, no comparable object is mentioned in Antonie Brandeis' corresponding object list. An old inventory number is missing. In the object list for the first consignment from April 1900 there are two "belts" made of pandanus and bast from Nauru, whose status quo is unclear: Nos. 174 + 175, old inventory numbers 1452+1453. It is possible that II/1302 is one of these belts. Comparable objects can be found in the Marshall Islands collection of Alexander Agassiz in the Peabody Museum Harvard, with the provenances "Ron(g)slab" (presumably Rongelab) and Wotje, both Marshall Islands. Whether the object belongs to the Brandeis collection and originates from the Marshall Islands must therefore remain open.
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