bowl
- Museum number
- Oc,+.677
- Description
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Bowl of black wood with handles fastened on with gum and surmounted by birds. Four short legs; a band in low relief round the outside of the rim with three pendant ornaments.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1878)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 37.50 inches (from original registration)
- Curator's comments
- Register slip comment:
These bowls are used in feasts & as a means of barter'. N..De Maclay
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1878
- Acquisition notes
- From the HMS Challenger oceanographic expedition of 1872-1876.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,+.677
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1878C2.677 (old CDMS no.)