Wooden bowls on the Admiralty Islands, even if they were simply made, were always considered important. They were traded from the manufacturing centres to smaller islands where wood was a valuable commodity.
The object was collected by Lieutenant Paul Werber from Freiburg, 1st Officer in the Imperial Navy who sailed the South Seas for a total of two years on the S.M.S. Cormoran and donated about 100 objects from various regions of Oceania to the museum.