Bowl <Vessel>
vor 1900
About the object
An unadorned eating bowl made of wood. Even simple bowls were extremely valuable throughout Oceania and were used mainly by leading clanspeople. A job performed by men, they are carved from a single piece of wood. The object comes from Eugen Brandeis' collection, who was stationed on the island of Jaluit as governor for the German colonial government from 1898 until 1906. However, most of this ethnographic collection donated to the museum was collected by his wife Antonie Brandeis.