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Bast

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Brown bast of this kind was woven into the fabric in order to decorate the borders of dress mats, among other objects. Special needles were used to knit the bast into the woven strips of mat.

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Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Baststoff
Dimensions
Height: 30.0 mm
Width: 70.0 mm
Material/Technique
Bast
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1338
Related object(s)

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. 73 (Object list Antonie Brandeis, 1st consignment April 1900, SAF D.Sm 35/1): "Ein Stück Bast. Jap". Additional comment: "The edge of the mats is woven with black-coloured raffia No. 73. The brown raffia No. 72, which is painstakingly obtained from a weed, is knitted into it with a needle." (in: "Bemerkungen zu den dem Museum zu Freiburg /B. übersandten ethnologischen Gegenständen aus den Marshallinseln. South Seas". SAF D.Sm 35/1). Entry no. 73 in Antonie Brandeis' object list comprises two objects, a brown (II/1338) and a black (II/1339) ball.

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