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Sago storage jar

Data Provider
Ethnologisches Museum Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Sago storage jar
Dimensions
Height: 79 cm
Width: 61 cm
Depth: 50 cm
Weight: 20 kg
Material/Technique
Sound, Pigment
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI Nls 4792

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1912
    where
    Melanesia
    Northeast New Guinea
    Middle Sepik
    Village III below Chesbandai (?)
    Papua New Guinea
  • Collecting
    who
    Sepik-Expedition (Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss Expedition)
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Assignment of purchase from Sepik expedition around 1912 uncertain
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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