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Stand

Racks of this kind were used to dry pandanus, breadfruit and arrowroot tubers, which were the main nutritional staples on the Marshall Islands in pre-colonial times.

Data Provider
Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Ständer
Dimensions
Width: 280.0 mm
Length: 350.0 mm
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1345

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1900
  • Change of legal title:
    Donation
    when
    24.04.1900
    who
    Brandeis, Eugen - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Marshall Islands (location/origin)
    Micronesia (location/origin)
    Oceania (location/origin)
    who
    Brandeis, Antonie - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania
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. 6 (Object list Antonie Brandeis, 1st consignment April 1900, SAF D.Sm 35/1): "Rack for drying Arrow-root. Ligielik". In her text "South Sea Memories" from 1908 (Deutsche Kolonialzeitung vol. 25, no. 3), Antonie Brandeis mentions that she "had old people make specimens of utensils from earlier times that no longer exist today" (p. 37), without, however, specifying this for individual objects. It can be assumed that this could refer in particular to the models made for the collection.

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