neck-ornament;
dance-ornament
- Museum number
- Oc.6550
- Description
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Neck ornament consisting of the base of a large white cone shell, and a triangular piece of the side of a cone shell loosely fastened together with fibre. It has a long tuft of fibre attached to base.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1865)
- Dimensions
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Height: 26.50 centimetres
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Width: 13.50 centimetres
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Depth: 8 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Registration slip information (from donor?): 'From Upolu, Samoan Islands, 1865. "Neck ornament worn by men at night-dances."
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Acquisition notes
- From a collection made by Julius Brenchley in early July 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.6550
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1870C1.6550 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1870C0324.60