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Wooden stick, to which flywheels and down feathers are attached by wrapping string around them

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Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Cataloguing data

Object type
Kultgegenstand
Dimensions
L 56 cm
Material/Technique
wood (plant material), feather (material), Plant fibre
Object genre
ritual object
Current location
Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Inventory number
JGU ES 2121
Other number(s)
Linden-Museum: 60736 (Old inventory number)
2121 (Old inventory number)

Provenance and sources

  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic study collection
  • Production
    where
    Moewe Harbour
    Neubritannien
    Papua-Neuguinea
    Neuguinea
    Melanesien
    Ozeanien
    Pazifik
  • Change of physical control:
    Not clarified
    where
    Papua-Neuguinea
    Neuguinea
    Melanesien
    Ozeanien
    Pazifik
    who
    Hefele, Ferdinand (1876 - 1953) - Owners
    Description
    F. Hefele probably acquired the object as part of the Hamburg South Sea Expedition 1908-1920.
  • Change of physical control:
    Donation
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Owners
    Description
    F. Hefele donated the object to the Linden-Museum Stuttgart.
  • Change of physical control:
    Exchange
    when
    15.12.1971
    where
    Stuttgart
    Baden-Württemberg
    Deutschland
    who
    Linden-Museum Stuttgart - Former Owners
    Description
    Came to Mainz "together with 636 other objects in exchange for 732 objects from Pakistan and Afghanistan" (Brandstetter, Hierholzer 2018).

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Legal status metadata
CC0 1.0 DEED

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