sandal
- Museum number
- Oc.7012.a-b
- Description
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Pair of sandals, paraerae, plaited from flax, three layers for each weft.
- Production date
- 19thC (opinion of Mick Pendergrast)
- Dimensions
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Height: 5 centimetres (each)
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Length: 28 centimetres
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Width: 10 centimetres (each)
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Depth: 29 centimetres (each)
- Curator's comments
- Christy "Additions, 1868-77" inventory, pp.135a. Acquired 31.12.1870, item no.2. Slips and Register give initials "J H", which appear to be a mistranscription of F H (Frederick Huth) in contemporary correspondence; (noted by D.Starzecka).
Father of Gertrude Ellen Meinhertzhagen (see purchases in 1895 for Christy Collection).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.7012.a-b
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1870C1.7012a-b (old CDMS no.)