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Bast
Coconut bast had numerous material uses. Referring to the artefacts in question, Antonie Brandeis described the production of coconut oil: the flesh of the coconut seed is extracted and rolled inside coconut bast as shown here. Subsequently, this pulp would be pressed and the resulting oil collected in a hollowed-out coconut shell. Before it became an international commodity, the oil was used as a kind of hair gel and was rubbed into the skin as a form of personal grooming.
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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Object type
Baststoff
Dimensions
Höhe: 100.0 mm, Breite: 160.0 mm, Länge: 308.0 mm
Material/Technique
Coconut fibre
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1310
Provenance and sources
when
before 1900
when
24.04.1900
where
Micronesia (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)
Marshall Islands (location/origin)
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. 97 (Object list Antonie Brandeis, 1st consignment April 1900, SAF D.Sm 35/1): "A piece of coconut bast. Inbuil. To strain Arrowroot". Additional comment: "Coconut oil used to be stored in such nuts, which were closed by an angled leaf. When the oil was not yet a commodity, it was only used to rub into the hair and body to make it more resistant to the weather. The scraped kernel of the nut was wrapped in coconut bast No. 97 and pressed between pieces of wood in a wooden trough, then the oil was filled into nuts." (in: "Bemerkungen zu den dem Museum zu Freiburg /B. übersandten ethnologischen Gegenständen aus den Marshallinseln. South Seas". SAF D.Sm 35/1).
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