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Javelin

According to collector Antonie Brandeis, this simple spear made from light, blackened wood belonged to a chief’s son.

Data Provider
Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Speer
Dimensions
Length: 2800.0 mm
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/0680

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1900
  • Change of legal title:
    Donation
    when
    25.09.1902
    who
    Brandeis, Eugen - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Marshall Islands (location/origin)
    Micronesia (location/origin)
    Oceania (location/origin)
    who
    Brandeis, Antonie - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania
Provenance
Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) April 1900, collected by Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit) /Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) April 1900, collected by Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit) This object probably belongs to the collection of Antonie and Eugen Brandeis, even if it cannot be precisely identified. It may be no. 182 or no. 183 of the first Brandeis consignment from Jaluit in April 1900, there with the old inventory numbers 1460 and 1461: "A spear for a chieftain's son. Coconut palm trunk blackened with charcoal and coconut oil" (object list, SAF D.Sm 35/1). The two spears 1460+1461 are listed in the Old Inventory (but not until 1902, so possibly later).

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