container;
pigment sample
- Museum number
- Am1979,Q.17
- Description
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Container made of internal organ tissue (bladder or intestine?) from a seal or porpoise?, filled with red ochre.
- Production date
- 1800 - 1900s
- Dimensions
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Height: 8 centimetres
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Length: 23 centimetres
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Width: 12 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- From old tag attached to object "Yaghan"; (see Q-Register for further notes).
Register addition "Tierra del Fuego, Navarin Island" (which is provenance of 1855,1220.192). However most recent tag attached to object suggests that 1831,0416.6 is the more likely original Register number. (AMD,5/1993).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1997, London, Museum of Mankind, 'Patagonia: The Uttermost End of the Earth'
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1979,Q.17
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Am1831,0416.6.a-b (possible original Register no. ?)
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Miscellaneous number: Am1855,1220.192 (possible original Register no. ?)
