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coconut scraper

The coconut scraper consists of a long wooden stick that is attached to two feet on one side and runs diagonally downwards. The stick is decorated with incised patterns.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
culinary equipment
Dimensions
General: 34.5 × 28 × 92.5 cm
Material/Technique
Wood carved
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D06386
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D06386

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1913
    where
    Admiralty Islands
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Ludwig Cohn - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections
Secondary literature
Ohnemus, Sylvia: Zur Kultur der Admitalitäts-Insulaner in Melanesien, Basel, 1996, S. 233

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