drawing
- Museum number
- Am2006,Drg.102
- Title
- Object: Aboriginal Ornament selected from the International Exhibition London 1862 for Henry Christy
- Description
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Drawing; pl.44, fig1; brass hilt of a short sword with a wooden sheath, the pattern on the handle represents the body of a fish, with the head buried in a cup of leaves; fig.2; front view of the same sword hilt. Borneo.
Watercolour
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 30.30 centimetres
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Width: 24 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- There are one hundred and twenty-seven drawings on sixty-seven cards from eighteen countries, plus twenty pages of hand written text, which comprises of one title page, one contents list and eighteen pages of description of the drawings.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good
- Associated events
- Associated Event: International Exhibition London 1862
- Acquisition date
- 2007
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am2006,Drg.102
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Am2006-Drg102-Haw