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Apron

Data Provider
Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Schurz
Dimensions
Width: 630.0 mm
Length: 340.0 mm
Material/Technique
Bast
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1527

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1900
  • Change of legal title:
    Donation
    when
    around 1900
    who
    Brandeis, Eugen - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Polynesia (location/origin)
    Nauru (location/origin)
    Samoa Islands (location/origin)
    Oceania (location/origin)
    Micronesia (location/origin)
    who
    Brandeis, Antonie - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania
Provenance
The provenance of this object is unclear. An old inventory number is missing. In the new inventory, the object is entered as a "bast apron" and "South Pacific (Nauru)", with the addition "in any case like N.644" [=Brandeis-Slg.] On the index card of 1971, this was adopted with restrictions, as a "possible gift from Governor Brandeis", and the regional origin was given as Polynesia following an appraisal by Dr Kußmaul. A later note from 1981 added "Samoa". However, the object cannot be assigned to either of the two inventory lists of the Brandeis collection. There are bast skirts in the collection whose status is unclear. However, the style and workmanship of this object are rather unusual for the Micronesian raffia skirts in the Brandeis collection, which suggests that II/1527 does not come from there. It cannot be ruled out that this is a Brandeis object, but there is little to suggest that it is.

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