Drinking bowl
Title
Drinking bowl
Description
Coconut shell drinking bowl with carved decorative lines, three straight and one wavelike
Creator
Unknown
Rights
© Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Provenance
Donated to the museum by "O. Lotichius" (presumably Otto Lotichius) in 1913. Until 02/2025, O. Lotichius was not mentioned and the receipt of the object was recorded as purchase in the database. However, the inventory book clearly indicated a donation by O. Lotichius.
Place of Creation
Seram (West)
Collector
Date collected
1911
Physical Dimensions
5,5 cm (ca. 11,5 cm in diameter)
Materials
Coconut
Collecting Institution
Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Inventory Number
20888
Collection
Citation
Unknown, “Drinking bowl,” The Mailopu Archive - Markus Mailopu and the II. Freiburg Moluccan Expedition, accessed December 31, 2025, https://www.mailopu.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/omeka/items/show/296.
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