needle-case
- Museum number
- Oc.6015.a
- Description
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Cylindrical needle case made of bark (?), cord (fibre), feathers; coated with red pigment. The ends of three bone needles are visible at one end of the bag. Bound round middle with a stout twisted brown cord under which are placed some white downy feathers. Contains two piercers of bird's beaks (?).
- Production date
- 1840-1870 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 16 centimetres
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Width: 4 centimetres
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Depth: 3.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Original registration slip:
Obtained from the natives near Melbourne.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Acquisition notes
- Registration slip: 'Presd by Prof. T. Rupert Jones, F.G.S. Jan 6 1870'.
See Christy Additions (1869-1870),p.28, no.6, and Christy Additions (1868-1877), pp.95-96.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.6015.a
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1870C1.6015a (old CDMS no.)