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fan

Very special smo fan in a triangular shape with wooden sticks wrapped with huge pieces of pandanus bast which are partly coloured pink. The handle is completly wrapped with a string, which seems to be sennit. 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: 35 × 18 × 1 cm
Material/Technique
Pandanus leaf; pigment; coconut leaf vein; coconut fibre; wood
plaited; carved
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D05456
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D05456

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1905
    where
    Samoa
  • Publishing
    Description
    Oceania Collection Voyages - Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/people/Oceania-Collection-Voyages/100083002609221/ (last accessed on: 05.01.2024)
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

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Legal status metadata
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