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ladle

The ladle scoop is made of a hollowed coconut shell. The handle’s body is diamond-shaped. Within the diamond are multiple other diamonds. The top of the handle is spiked with an arrow and a square block.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
ladles
Dimensions
General: 26 × 10.5 cm
Material/Technique
Coconut shell; wood; plant fibre; parinarium putty
carved; polished; hollowed out
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D09185
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D09185

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1913
    where
    Admiralty Islands
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Ludwig Cohn - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections
Secondary literature
Ohnemus, Sylvia: Zur Kultur der Admitalitäts-Insulaner in Melanesien, Basel, 1996, S. 244

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