drawing
- Museum number
- Am2006,Drg.94
- Title
- Object: Aboriginal Ornament selected from the International Exhibition London 1862 for Henry Christy
- Description
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Drawing; pl.36, fig.1; neck-ornament made of a circular cord about one centimetre in diameter covered with six equal divisions of bright yellow and green feathers; fig.2; neck-ornament composed of numerous plaits of human hair with a hook-like form made of whale's tooth attached in the middle; fig.3; wooden implement used in the making of Tapa. Hawaii.
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.94
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Am2006-Drg94-Haw
