spinning-top;
toy
- Museum number
- Oc,+.3434.a
- Description
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Spinning-top (part of), toy, formed of a lenticular disc of buff stone, having on the flatter face a standing figure in red. Once had stick of palm wood.
- Production date
- 19thC(late) (before 1886)
- Dimensions
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Height: 3.50 centimetres
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Width: 14.50 centimetres
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Depth: 15 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Christy collection registration slip description, written in 1886?:
New Guinea
Spinning top. It is formed of a lenticular disc of buff stone, having on the flatter face a standing figure in red. The stick is of palm wood.
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Illustrated in James Edge Partington, 'An Album....', plate 319, no.1 and 1a
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See C.H. Read, 'Stone Spinning Tops from Torres Straits, New Guinea', Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. XVII. 1888, plate IV, no.2
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See Christy Correspondence:
'Specimens collected in New Guinea by Rev S McFarlane. bought of Edw Gerrard Jnr - 23 Nov 1886 - Christy Fund. - £24'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1886
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,+.3434.a
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1886C2.3434a (old CDMS no.)