container
- Museum number
- Oc,+.3902
- Description
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Small coconut, hollow and carved with incised and openwork ornament at the upper end. Container for pyrites for staining teeth.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1888)
- Dimensions
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Height: 10 centimetres
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Width: 5.50 centimetres
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Depth: 6 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Reference from Aoife O'Brien (2010) 'The professional amateur: An exploration of the collecting practices of Charles Morris Woodford', Journal of Ethnography, No. 23, pp 21-40:
This comb was collected when Charles Woodford visited the Roviana Lagoon in New Georgia, Solomon Islands (1886). It is used to hold iron pyrites, which is used to stain teeth, p.27.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1888
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,+.3902
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1888C2.3902 (old CDMS no.)