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smo woven coconut fan. Interesting wooden handle, tied with string made from human hair. Red and dark brown inner border decoration. Label reads: Ili tea. 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
hand fans
Dimensions
General: 46 × 27 × 2 cm
Material/Technique
coconut leaflet; coconut leaflet rib; hibiscus fibre; pigment; coconut fibre; wood
braided
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D05430
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D05430

Provenance and sources

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

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