Parasol | Photographer: Oleg Kuchar | Rights management: Museum Ulm
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Chinese parasol made from a wooden frame with paper covering. The paper is coated with red and black paint and the handle is made of wood. The tip and the handle are wrapped in rattan. The frame is defective. The object comes from the collection of the pharmacist, writer and doctor Albert Daiber (1857 - 1928), who travelled to the South Seas from April to September 1900, visiting German and British colonial territories. Stops included Australia, the Bismarck Archipelago, the eastern part of the island of New Guinea, the Caroline and Mariana Islands and China (Hong Kong). He described his experiences in the 1902 travelogue "Eine Australien- und Südseefahrt". Albert Daiber emigrated to Chile in 1909. Before that, he handed over the objects he had collected on his journey to Otto Leube in Ulm, who initially kept the collection and then donated it to the Museum of the City of Ulm as a deposit after Daiber's death in 1930. Daiber probably got the umbrella from the Hong Kong / Guangzhou region, which were stops on his journey but are not described in detail in the travelogue.
