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Hatchet with steel blade and wooden shaft. The blade was acquired through trading and has been bound to the handle with rattan. There is a depiction of an animal's head at the end of the carved shaft.

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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Object type
Beil
Dimensions
Länge: 445.0 mm
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/0563

Provenance and sources

when
before 1900

when
22.11.1901
who
Brandeis, Eugen - Former Possessors

where
Bismarck Archipelago (location/origin)
Papua New Guinea (location/origin)
Melanesia (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)
who
Brandeis, Antonie - Collectors

Provenance
Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) November 1901, collected by Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit) /Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) November 1901, collected by Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit) Object no. 88 (Object list Antonie Brandeis, 2nd consignment 1901, SAF C3/241/2): "Axt. Wood and iron" How the New Guinea objects came into the Brandeis couple's collection is still unclear. Possibly via the collector and employee of the trading company Hernsheim & Co. in Matupi (Bismarck Archipelago) Maximilian Franz Thiel. This is suggested by a letter dated 6 April 1899, which Eugen Brandeis sent from Jaluit to the Freiburg Museum of Natural History and Ethnology (SAF C3/241/1).

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