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Spoon

Ladles with decorative handles were widely used on the Admiralty Islands. The fully sculpted, carved fish suggest that it was used during festivities.

Data Provider
Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Löffel
Dimensions
Height: 340.0 mm
Diameter: 115.0 mm
Material/Technique
Coconut, Wood
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1945

Provenance and sources

  • Change of legal title:
    Purchase
    when
    January 1929
    who
    Plähn, Rudolf - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Papua New Guinea (location/origin)
    Oceania (location/origin)
    Melanesia (location/origin)
    Bismarck Archipelago (location/origin)
    Manus (location/origin)
    Admiralty Islands (location/origin)
    who
    Lebahn, Wilhelm - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

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