ring;
currency
- Museum number
- Oc.6476
- Description
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Ring, currency made of spar (calcareous).
- Dimensions
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Height: 6 centimetres
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Width: 15.50 centimetres
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Depth: 18.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Christy collection registration slip description, written in 1870?:
Erromango, New Hebrides
"Navalae" ring made of white calcareous spar. "They are as it were, the gold currency of the country. One of these rings, together with a spear or a bow & arrows, would purchase a wife." No. 225 Brenchley Cat.
Large, oval form, inner side rubbed smooth & convex. Outer side rounded, & partly or wholly? retaining the natural form.
- 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.6476
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1870C1.6476 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: 225 (Brenchley catalogue)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1870C0324.146