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The bulbous hat is made of bound and woven rattan and plant fibre. A darker plant fibre is woven in the bulbous portion to form a pattern. The base is woven in red.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
hats
Dimensions
General: 39.5 x 25 cm Partial dimensions (hat lid): 16 cm Partial dimensions (hat hole): 15 cm
Material/Technique
Pandanut leaf; Plant fibre; Rotang braided
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D07728
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D07728

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1910
    where
    Buka Island
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Ludwig Cohn - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections
Secondary literature
Ribbe Dresden 1903: 226 Blackwood Oxford 1935: Plate 27 (gegenüber 234) Plate 30 (gegenüber 246)

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