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Boat ornament
Five large cowry shells attached to a fibre thread. Hanging ornaments of this kind were used to adorn canoes.
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Object type
Decoration for a Boat
Dimensions
Width: 300.0 mm
Length: 300.0 mm
Length: 300.0 mm
Material/Technique
Cowrie, Plant fibre
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/0841
Provenance and sources
Production
when
before 1900
Change of legal title:
Donation
when
22.11.1901
Change of physical control or legal title
where
New Guinea (location/origin)
Melanesia (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)
Assignment to a curated holding:
Oceania
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. 91 (Object list Antonie Brandeis, 2nd consignment 1901, SAF C3/241/2): "Shells. Cowrie shells. Used to decorate the Kanoes".
How the objects from Fiji, the Caroline Islands, Kiribati or New Guinea came into the Brandeis collection is still unclear. Antonie Brandeis never travelled there. In some cases, she received objects as gifts from naval officers or missionaries who visited her in Jaluit.
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