Bailer ·  French Polynesia, Vahitahi (Vaitake) · ID: 3042793

Description

wood, brown patina, boat-shaped corpus with plug-shaped handle at the rear end, deepened diamond-shaped decor, slightly dam. (tip), minor missing parts (rim), old rep. (crack at the bottom partly filled with reddish mass), base.
Belonged to the standard equipment of a canoe to scoop out water in the event of capsizing or flooding.
Vahitahi, or Vaitake, is an atoll in the eastern area of the Tuamotu Archipelago. It measures approximately 41 kilometres in length and has a maximum width of 4.5 kilometres.

The object Bailer with the object ID 3042793 was last part of the auction 87th Tribal Art Auction at November 11, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 37 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,200.

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