bottle
- Museum number
- Oc.6359
- Description
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Bottle of coconut shell with carrying cord strung with shell beads. Two small sections of white shell stuck in gum on the upper end of the nut.
- Dimensions
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Height: 12 centimetres
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Width: 13.50 centimetres
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Depth: 19 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register slip reads, apparently quoting Brenchley:
"Water bottle" ......... From Florida Island, Sept. 1865
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Acquisition notes
- From a collection made by Julius Brenchley in 1865 on a cruise of HMS Curacoa around the Pacific, which was divided among Maidstone Museum, the British Museum, the Pitt Rivers Museum and Exeter Museum.
Register slip reads:
Presd. by Julius L. Brenchley Esq 24.3.1870 (M.)
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.6359
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1870C1.6359 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1870C0324.282