bow
- Museum number
- Oc.6654
- Description
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Bow of dark red fibrous wood, palm (?), with string of twine
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1865)
- Dimensions
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Height: 114.50 centimetres
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Width: 2.70 centimetres
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Depth: 4.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register slip reads:
From Gulf Island, Solomon Islands, 1865
Gulf Island is Ugi
- 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.6654
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1870C1.6654 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1870C0324.291