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Drinking bowl

This thin-walled drinking bowl made of coconut was probably used to drink kava. Text: Ulrich Menter

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Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
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Object type
Drinking bowl
Dimensions
Höhe: 10 cm, Durchmesser: 13 cm
Material/Technique
Coconut stone shell
carved, Polished
Current location
Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Inventory number
023337

Provenance and sources

when
around 1900

where
Samoa
who
Solf, Wilhelm Heinrich - Collectors

when
1902
Provenance
The object is part of an extensive donation by Wilhelm Solf (1862-1936), who was a colonial official in Sāmoa from 1898 and was governor of the colony of German Samoa from 1900 to 1910. The exact circumstances of the acquisition by Solf are not yet known. Text: Ulrich Menter

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