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kava cup

Lower part of a coconut. The shell is thin, finely abraded and blackened. On the outer surface there are point-shaped light grains as well as elongated grains arranged on three courses, which meet in the center. The lower outer tip is elongated and pierced on the long side. The inner surface is lighter overall, and the grains are longer and wider. 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
cups (drinking vessels)
Dimensions
General: 6.5 × 10 cm
Material/Technique
Stone shell of the coconut
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D05542
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D05542

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1905
    where
    Samoa
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

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Legal status metadata
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