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oil vessel

The oil vessel is a tall clay vessel around which rattan handles are attached. The base of the vessel is made of woven rattan, and the neck is incised with a triangle pattern.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
containers (receptacles)
Dimensions
General: 50.5 × 22 cm
Material/Technique
Rotang; clay
plaited; pottery
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D07570
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D07570

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. 191

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