ear-ornament;
personal ornament
- Museum number
- Oc,+.4908
- Description
-
Disk of shell with radial cuts and holes, for the ear.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1891)
- Curator's comments
- Register slip reads, apparently transcribed from previous catalogue:
Ear ornament. San Cristoval
This type of ornament is documented by Ivens (1918:19, 1927:89) for south Malaita and Ulawa (See Burt (2009) 'Body Ornaments of Malaita'.)
See Christy Correspondence:
Letter Richard Blundell Comins/A W Franks, 15 January 1891
List of 'Melanesian curiosities' sent to BM - This item is presumably that listed as '...From Solomon Ids. San Cristoval & Ulawa etc. ... a circular shell ear ornament ...'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Acquisition notes
- Register slip reads (for collection Oc+4894 to Oc+4920):
Presented by the Rev. R. B. Comins 12 Jany. 1891
Rev. Richard Comins was a missionary with the Anglican Melanesian Mission, in Solomon Islands from 1877 to 1903 and on Norfolk Island from 1904 to 1912.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,+.4908
- Additional IDs
-
CDMS number: Oc1891C2.4908 (old CDMS no.)