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The neckrest consists of a thick bamboo cane as well as wooden feet which were fastened with coconut fibre string. It thus corresponds to the typical design of Samoan headrests. A special feature is the engraved lettering containing, among others, the words "Tuaa" and "Apia Samoa". Text: Ulrich Menter
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Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
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Object type
Headrest
Dimensions
Durchmesser: 7 cm, Breite: 78 cm, Höhe: 16.5 cm, Tiefe: 20.5 cm
Material/Technique
Bamboo, Wood, Coconut fibre
carved, scribed
carved, scribed
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
086413
Provenance and sources
when
before 1899
where
Samoa
when
1913
Provenance
The Linden Museum received this object in 1913 from the Royal Natural History Cabinet in Stuttgart. It was acquired by Augustin Krämer, director of the Linden Museum from 1911 to 1915, in Sāmoa. His first stay on the island lasted from 1893 to 1895 as a naval surgeon on the SMS Bussard stationed in Apia. A second journey took him again to Sāmoa between 1897 and 1899. The date of the acquisition of the object and the exact circumstances of the acquisition are not yet known.
Text: Ulrich Menter
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