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before 1900
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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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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Decoration for a Boat
- Dimensions
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Width: 300.0 mm
Length: 300.0 mm - Material/Technique
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Cowrie, Plant fibre
- Current location
- Museum Natur und Mensch
- Inventory number
- II/0841
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Change of legal title:
Donation-
when
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22.11.1901
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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New Guinea (location/origin)Melanesia (location/origin)Oceania (location/origin)
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Assignment to a curated holding:
Oceania
- Provenance
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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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- CC0 1.0 DEED
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