bag
- Museum number
- Oc,+.5887
- Description
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Bag of loosely netted vegetable fibre cord with transverse bands of indigo and patches of red. On the front hangs an oval piece of a cymbium shell and a piece of nautilus shell.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1892)
- Curator's comments
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Comment on registation slip: 'No. 20 Bag with shell Finsch harbour'
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Small circular label reads: "New Guinea, T.T. Coastal, Finschshafen". "[Coastal" crossed out and replaced with "East".
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1892
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,+.5887
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1892C2.5887 (old CDMS no.)