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Scraper

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Fruit, such as pandanus or coconuts or arrowroot tubers, belonged to the main nutritional staples on the pre-colonial Marshall Islands. Special tools such as this one had culinary uses, for example in preparing meals or conserves from the fruit. A clam shell was affixed to a wooden rack, whereby the fruit could be finely scraped out and then subsequently cooked or dried.

Data Provider
Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Schaber
Dimensions
Height: 190.0 mm
Length: 440.0 mm
Material/Technique
Coconut, Wood
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1399

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.29 (Object list Antonie Brandeis, 1st consignment April 1900, SAF D.Sm 35/1): "Coconut scraper. Ken-in-ranigi. Wood with sharpened coconut shard".

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Legal status metadata
CC0 1.0 DEED

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