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Vessel

Limestone chalk is an important ingredient for when chewing betel nuts and is therefore always carried about one's person. The chalk calabashes come with long spatulas for the purpose of extracting the chalk. Guests were offered the chalk containers as a gift. They are still in use today.

Data Provider
Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Gefäß
Dimensions
Diameter: 95.0 mm
Height: 215.0 mm
310.0 mm
Material/Technique
Pumpkin
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/0469

Provenance and sources

  • Change of legal title:
    Purchase
    when
    31.07.1907
    who
    Plähn, Rudolf - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Admiralty Islands (location/origin)
    Oceania (location/origin)
    Melanesia (location/origin)
    Papua New Guinea (location/origin)
    Bismarck Archipelago (location/origin)
    Manus (location/origin)
    who
    Lebahn, Wilhelm - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

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