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vessel

The vessel is hourglass-shaped, resting on a base resembling a halved coconut shell. The top is bowl-shaped, half of which is coloured white, and the other half is black and red. The body of the vessel is quartered and coloured in red and white. The base is black, with a rim of white at the very bottom.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
containers (receptacles)
Dimensions
General: 29.5 × 10.5 cm
Material/Technique
Coconut; parinarium putty; plant fibre carved; drilled; hollowed; painted
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D09262
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D09262

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

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
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