Tobacco basket
Title
Tobacco basket
Description
Small, round container for storing tobacco and a lid made of woven bast with six tips, according to original catalogue card attributed to "Alfuren (Wahakajim)"
Creator
Unknown
Rights
© GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Foto: Kim Janke
Provenance
Until an exchange in 1921 part of the collection of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Köln
Place of Creation
Seram (East)
Collector
Physical Dimensions
4 cm (5 cm in diameter)
Materials
Raffia
Collecting Institution
GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig
Inventory Number
SAs 10350
File item: 1921/67
Original Number: D. 799
File item: 1921/67
Original Number: D. 799
Collection
Citation
Unknown, “Tobacco basket,” The Mailopu Archive - Markus Mailopu and the II. Freiburg Moluccan Expedition, accessed May 6, 2025, https://www.mailopu.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/omeka/items/show/39.
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