Dried cone from a park in Sydney which is formed spherical and has lamellae. The cone is entwisted by wire, which is on top twisted into a lug as suspension. To the wire a dried-up branch or pedicel is attached. It is presumably the fruit of the kauri / dammara tree (Agathis). It is not definitely clear, which specific species it is because the collector mingles in his descriptions several terminologies of different species. Possibly, it is the cone of the Amboina pine or dammar pine (Agathis dammara).
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.
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