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bed leg

The bed leg is carved in the shape of a figure. The figure has no legs but a bulbous bottom. The arms hang at the side of the figure. The earlobes are extended. The body is white and incised with diamond patterns.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
legs (furniture components)
Dimensions
General: 63.5 × 14.5 × 12.5 cm
Material/Technique
Wood; plant fibre; plant paint carved
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D12726
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D12726

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. 284

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