Production
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when
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before 1900
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Bottle
Fleshed-out coconuts, which were then smooth inside, were fastened with string and taken aboard on long sea voyages to be used as drinking vessels as well to collect rainwater. They could be closed using a plug made from palm leaves. Receptacles of this kind, tied in a simple way, were hung from palm trees to collect rainwater. A dried pandanus leaf was affixed to the trunk to direct the rainwater into the hole of the coconut.
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Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Flasche
- Dimensions
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Height: 160.0 mm
Diameter: 145.0 mm - Material/Technique
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Plant fibre, Leaf, Coconut
- Current location
- Museum Natur und Mensch
- Inventory number
- II/1299
Provenance and sources
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Production
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Change of legal title:
Donation-
when
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24.04.1900
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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Marshall Islands (location/origin)Micronesia (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) April 1900, collected by Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit) /Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) April 1900, collected by Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit)
Object no. 89 (Object list Antonie Brandeis, 1st consignment April 1900, SAF D.Sm 35/1): "Particularly large nut as drinking vessel. Boga in Iraq". Additional comment: "The smooth-scraped coconuts No. 83-89 are indispensable to the islanders [...] The tightly braided nuts were used as drinking vessels for rainwater on sea voyages. The simply braided ones were hung under palm trees to catch the rainwater. A tied dry pandanus leaf channelled the water flowing down the trunk directly into the hole in the nut." (in: "Bemerkungen zu den dem Museum zu Freiburg /B. übersandten ethnologischen Gegenständen aus den Marshallinseln. South Seas". SAF D.Sm 35/1).
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