Tobacco basket
Title
Tobacco basket
Description
Braided, rectangular container with lid made of braided bast and used to store tobacco, according to original catalogue card attributed to "Wahakajim-Alfuren"
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
6 x 3 x 4 cm
Materials
Bast
Collecting Institution
GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig
Inventory Number
SAs 10349
File item: 1921/67
Original Number: D. 800
File item: 1921/67
Original Number: D. 800
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/49.
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