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A long sleeping mat woven from pandanus leaves and transversally sewn. A string, dyed red, has been sewn into the borders as a form of ornament. According to the collector, this is a valuable piece due to its elaborate means of production. It is still unclear how this and other similar artefacts from the Caroline Islands were acquired for Antonie Brandeis’s collection. She herself was unlikely to have visited the Caroline Islands. Collectable ethnographic artefacts circulated amongst European traders, missionaries, sailors and civil servants and were both sold and given away as gifts. Antonie Brandeis demonstrably received large swathes of such artefacts from other collectors as gifts. It is not known if this one also belonged to these gifts.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Matte
Dimensions
Width: 710.0 mm
Length: 3000.0 mm
Material/Technique
Leaf, Braiding
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1306

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    before 1900
  • Change of legal title:
    Donation
    when
    22.11.1901
    who
    Brandeis, Eugen - Former Possessors
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    Caroline (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) November 1901, collected by Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit) /Donated by Eugen Brandeis (Imperial Governor of the Marshall Islands) November 1901, collected by Antonie Brandeis (Jaluit) The provenance of this object is unclear. It has no old inventory number. According to the New Inventory Book, it belongs to object II/1307 ("2 large palm leaf mats" from the Caroline Islands) and is part of the Brandeis collection. In the 1968 index card, however, the acquisition is marked with a question mark. It is plausible that it belongs to the Brandeis collection, but this cannot be proven. How the objects came from the Caroline Islands to the Brandeis collection is still unclear at present. Antonie Brandeis never stayed there. In some cases, she received objects as gifts from naval officers or missionaries who visited her in Jaluit.

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