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Vessel

The limestone chalk used when chewing betel nuts is stored and transported in ornate chalk calabashes of this kind. Chalk residues are still present. The meaning of the patterns is no longer known.

Data Provider
Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Gefäß
Dimensions
Height: 220.0 mm
Diameter: 100.0 mm
310.0 mm
Material/Technique
Pumpkin
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/0468

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1900 - 1910
  • Change of legal title:
    Donation
    when
    1911
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Manus (location/origin)
    Admiralty Islands (location/origin)
    Bismarck Archipelago (location/origin)
    Papua New Guinea (location/origin)
    Melanesia (location/origin)
    Oceania (location/origin)
    who
    Werber, Paul - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

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