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Ropes made from coir were important for boat building and fishing. With hard ironwood staffs like this one, coconut husks were beaten to make the fibrous coir suppler for plaiting.

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Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Hammer
Dimensions
Length: 560.0 mm
Diameter: 45.0 mm
Material/Technique
Ironwood
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1390
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Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1900
  • Change of legal title:
    Donation
    when
    24.04.1900
    who
    Brandeis, Eugen - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Marshall Islands (location/origin)
    Micronesia (location/origin)
    Oceania (location/origin)
    who
    Brandeis, Antonie - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania
Provenance
Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) April 1900, collected by Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit) /Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) April 1900, collected by Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit) Object no. 80 (Object list Antonie Brandeis, 1st consignment April 1900, SAF D.Sm 35/1): "A wood for beating coconut fibre. Ken in rengreng beo. Ironwood". Supplementary comment: "The ropes are twisted from coconut fibre in various thicknesses. To make the coconut fibre pliable, it is beaten soft with pieces of ironwood No. 80." (in: "Bemerkungen zu den dem Museum zu Freiburg /B. übersandten ethnologischen Gegenständen aus den Marshallinseln. South Seas". SAF D.Sm 35/1).

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CC0 1.0 DEED

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