ornament
- Museum number
- Oc,89+.55
- Description
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Necklace (umai danga) made of dog teeth drilled and sewn between two narrow bands of woven coconut fibre coloured red. The ends are bound.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1889)
- Dimensions
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Height: 79.80 centimetres
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Width: 24 centimetres
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Depth: 4 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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From Haddon's diary in September 1988 (see Herle & Philp) re likely collection of this and another necklace: 'I took a couple of photos at Badu and bought a few curios - for the first time I got the nose skewers, and some dog-tooth necklaces from New Guinea, and a wooden imitation of the stone clubs'.
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Register slip comment:
'Oomaidangal from New Guinea. Obtained in Badu'.
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Moore, 1984:
Badu, 1888.
Refs: Haddon, A.C., (ed.), 1901-35, 'Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits', Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1912, Vol 4: Arts and Crafts: 41. cf. pl. XI, fig. 18.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1889
- Acquisition notes
- Moore: Collected 1888.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,89+.55
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1889C16.55 (old CDMS no.)
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 42 (Haddon)
