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bure kalou

Such portable temples (bure kalou) are scaled-down replicas of a Fijian temple. They were kept in the large temples and presumably taken on boat journeys. The tedious production of the metre-long cords (magimagi) and their processing into portable temples was work dedicated to the deities. From the middle of the 19th century, they were made for sale to Europeans.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Portable temple
Dimensions
Height: 73 cm
Width: 32 cm
Depth: 32 cm
Weight: 4,06 kg
Material/Technique
Cord (coconut fibre)
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 8263

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1886
    where
    Polynesia
    Fiji
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Access unknown, by Carl Hagenbeck 1886
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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