Chinese sunshade consisting of a wooden scaffolding that is covered with paper. The paper is coated with red and black colour. The handle is made from wood. The top and the handle are wrapped with rattan. The frame is damaged.
The object comes from the collection of pharmacist, writer and doctor Albert Daiber (1857 - 1928), who undertook a journey to the South Seas from April to September 1900, which took him to then German and British colonial territories. Stops included Australia, the Bismarck Archipelago, the eastern part of the island of New Guinea, the Caroline Islands, the Mariana Islands and China (Hong Kong). Daiber described his experiences in the published travelogue "Eine Australien- und Südseefahrt" from 1902. In 1909, Albert Daiber emigrated to Chile. Beforehand he has given the collected objects from his voyage to Otto Leube in Ulm, who initially stored the collection and after Albert Daiber's death gave it to the Museum of the City of Ulm as a deposit in 1930.
Presumably, Daiber has the umbrella from the Hong Kong / Guangzhou region, which were stations on his trip, but are not described in detail in the travelogue.
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