tunuma

Information about the language not available
Information about the language not available

D05681 tatooing tool container

The tattooing tool container has a cylindric shape but becomes a little smaller at the top. The container is decorated with many small carvings. 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 Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
containers (receptacles)
Dimensions
General: 13 x 21 cm
Material/Technique
Wood | carved
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D05681

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1905 (?)
    where
    Samoa (?)
  • Change of physical control
    when
    1907 (?)
    who
    Description
    Purchase

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED
This content was machine-translated
Version: 2.5 / 7.5