Animal figure

Title

Animal figure

Description

Plant fiber in different shades, woven into the shape of an animal

Creator

Unknown

Rights

© Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Köln

Provenance

Acquired from the collector and donated to the museum by the association "Verein zur Förderung des Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museums" on June 26 1917

Place of Creation

Misool (Coast)

Physical Dimensions

12,6 x 25,7 x 9,7 cm

Materials

Plant fiber

Collecting Institution

Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Köln

Inventory Number

RJM 33150
(Convolute no.: RJM 1917/01)

Curatorial notes

A technical drawing of this or a similar item can be found in Tauern's notebook (p. 24), according to which the depicted animal is a goat

Collection

Citation

Unknown , “Animal figure,” 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/64.

Comments

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Geolocation