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octopus lure

The octopus lure is made from two cypraea tied to a stone with coconut sennit. The stone is also tied to sticks with coconut sennit. 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

Cataloguing data

Object type
fishing tackle
Dimensions
General: 5.5 × 23.5 × 6 cm
Material/Technique
Stone; shell of the Kauri tiger snail (Cypraea tigris); coconut fibre; wood, plant fibre thread, thread Rope work
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D05600
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D05600

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1902-1906
    where
    Samoa
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
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