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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Object type
Kopfschmuck
Dimensions
Breite: 35.0 mm, Länge: 480.0 mm
Material/Technique
Tapa
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/0801

Provenance and sources

when
before 1900

when
22.11.1901
who
Brandeis, Eugen - Former Possessors

where
Fiji (location/origin)
Polynesia (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. 86 (Object list Antonie Brandeis, 2nd consignment Nov 1901, SAF C3/241/2): "Headband. Tapa. From Fidji". How the objects from Fiji, the Caroline Islands, Kiribati or New Guinea came into the Brandeis collection is still unclear. Antonie Brandeis never travelled there. In some cases, she received objects as gifts from naval officers or missionaries who visited her in Jaluit.

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