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vessel

The vessel has an hourglass shape, with the base resembling a halved coconut. The narrow section of the body is decorated white. Above and below the white band, the vessel is coloured red and decorated with white and black designs. A thin handle is attached to the top of the vessel.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
containers (receptacles)
Dimensions
General: 38 × 13 cm
Material/Technique
Coconut; parinarium putty; plant fibre carved; drilled; hollowed; painted; plaited
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D09254
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D09254

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1913
    where
    Admiralty Islands
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Ludwig Cohn - Former Possessors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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