selu pau / selula'au, mea alofa | Rights management: Linden-Museum Stuttgart
Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs 4.0 International
Full screen
Initial display
Zoom in
Zoom out
Previous image
Next image
Downloads the object
selu pau / selula'au, mea alofa
Information about the language not available
Pin comb
Ornamental combs were a popular Samoan hair decoration until the 20th century. Besides combs made of coconut leaf ribs, finely carved and individually patterned wooden combs were used. Text: Ulrich Menter
- Data Provider
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Show original at data provider
Cataloguing data
- Object type
- Pin comb
- Dimensions
-
Length: 40.5 cm
Width: 5.9 cm - Material/Technique
-
Wood
carved
- Current location
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart
- Inventory number
- 023345
Provenance and sources
-
Assignment to a curated holding:
-
Production
-
when
-
around 1900
-
-
Change of physical control or legal title
-
where
-
Samoa
-
-
Change of physical control
-
when
-
1902
-
- Provenance
-
The object is
part of an extensive donation by Wilhelm Solf (1862-1936), who was a
colonial official in Sāmoa from 1898 and was governor of the colony of
German Samoa from 1900 to 1910. The exact circumstances of the
acquisition by Solf are not yet known. Text: Ulrich
Menter
Information about the record
- Legal status metadata
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
Related objects
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
necklace
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
orator's staff / walking stick
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
comb
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
ole alia
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
game piece
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
Bark pulp
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
tapa cloth
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
ili
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
ili
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
fan
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
Mat
This content was machine-translated