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water vessel

The water vessel is made from the shell of a coconut. The shell is covered with a pattern of carvings. There is a hole on the upper side.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
containers (receptacles)
Dimensions
General: 13.2 × 13.3 × 13.7 cm
Material/Technique
Coconut carved; hollowed out
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D13598
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D13598

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1893
    where
    New Britain
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Kapitän Rohde - Former Possessors
    Kapitän Rohde - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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