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va'a (fausaga); outrigger canoe (model)

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The model of an outrigger boat. Two float trees are connected by 3 outrigger poles. The long float boom carries the platform with the mast support (mast bearing wood). The mast with the sail is not present. A rudder lies next to the mast support. How did the object come to the Übersee-Museum? The collection was purchased by the museum from Otto Tetens in 1907. Tetens was director of the Samoa Observatory of the Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen in the colony of German Samoa from 1902 to 1905. Nothing is yet known about the exact circumstances of Tetens' acquisition on site.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
models (representations)
Dimensions
General: 13 x 32 x 59 cm
Material/Technique
Wood; plant fibre
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D08990
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D08990

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1905
    where
    Samoa
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED

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