Sago tongs

Title

Sago tongs

Description

Bamboo sago tongs, according to original catalogue card attributed to "Alfuren" and similar to item D. 1482, but with chipping of the outer layer on the bottom and without embellishment

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

Misool (West)

Physical Dimensions

30 cm

Materials

Bamboo

Collecting Institution

GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig

Inventory Number

SAs 10343

File item: 1921/67
Original Number: D. 1449

Collection

Citation

Unknown, “Sago tongs,” 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/45.

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