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Mat

A large sleeping mat made from pandanus leaves woven in a geometric pattern (rhombus shape), with a light pattern on a natural colored background. On the left and right at the height of the seam a bundle of leaves as decoration. According to the collector, this is a valuable piece due to its elaborate means of production. It is still unclear how this and other similar artefacts from the Caroline Islands were acquired for Antonie Brandeis’s collection. She herself was unlikely to have visited the Caroline Islands. Collectable ethnographic artefacts circulated amongst European traders, missionaries, sailors and civil servants and were both sold and given away as gifts. Antonie Brandeis demonstrably received large swathes of such artefacts from other collectors as gifts. It is not known if this one also belonged to these gifts.

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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Object type
Matte
Dimensions
Breite: 1700.0 mm, Länge: 2400.0 mm
Material/Technique
Braiding
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1307

Provenance and sources

when
before 1900

when
22.11.1901
who
Brandeis, Eugen - Former Possessors

where
Pohnpei (location/origin)
Caroline (location/origin)
Micronesia (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. 80 (Object list Antonie Brandeis, 2nd consignment Nov 1901, SAF C3/241/2): "Sleeping mat from Ponape. Pandanus leaves. Laborious work, therefore very valuable." How the objects came from the Caroline Islands to the Brandeis collection is still unclear. Antonie Brandeis never spent any time there. In some cases, she received objects as gifts from naval officers or missionaries who visited her in Jaluit.

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