Friction stone | Photographer: Axel Killian
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Friction stone
A flour ground from the tubers of arrowroot (tacca leontopetaloides), alongside the fruit of the pandanus and breadfruit tree, was a further, important nutritional staple found on the pre-colonial Marshall Islands. The roots were grounded on a coral stone like this one and then dried on a stand lined with coconut bast.
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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Object type
Grindstone
Dimensions
Breite: 140.0 mm, Höhe: 100.0 mm, Länge: 290.0 mm
Material/Technique
Corals
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1407
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is related to :
II/1297
Provenance and sources
when
before 1900
when
24.04.1900
where
Marshall Islands (location/origin)
Micronesia (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)
Provenance
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. 31 (object list Antonie Brandeis, 1st consignment April 1900, SAF D.Sm 35/1): "A piece of coral stone as a grater f. Arrow root. Bugur. Coral". Additional comment: "Arrow-root is rubbed on the coral stone No. 31 and then dried on a stand covered with coconut bast." (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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