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Shells of this kind were used as cutlery, for example when scraping out the meat of a coconut.

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Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Muscheln
Dimensions
Diameter: 70.0 mm
Material/Technique
Shell
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1355

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
    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) 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. There is no old inventory number. In the old inventory book, the object with the old inventory number 2148 ("shell as a spoon made of pearl shell" was assigned the new inventory number II/1355. However, this number was cancelled again (presumably shortly afterwards, as the same pen was used) and replaced by II/765. On the index card for the object from 1968, II/1355 was recorded together with the very similar shell II/1354, both as eating utensils or scrapers from the Marshall Islands. This similarity suggests that II/1355 is an object from the Brandeis collection. One possibility is that it was sent in together with II/1354 but not noted separately by the collector. It is more likely that the object is no. 36 of the object list for the 2nd Brandeis consignment of November 1901: "Spoon made of shell. Pearl shell. Used to scrape out the contents of the coconut and bring it to the mouth." (SAF C3/241/2).

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