sash;
belt
- Museum number
- Oc.9073.a
- Description
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Sash or belt made of textile (banana leaf or hibiscus fibre), loom woven with a fringe at ends. Three-quarters of the way along a portion of the belt is wrapped tightly with coarse coconut fibre (?) cord.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1874)
- Dimensions
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Length: 159 centimetres (excluding fringe)
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Length: 6 centimetres (total fringe length)
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Width: 12 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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See illustration in James Edge Partington's Album 1890-1898 p.176
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Re-numbered "9073.a" on Oceania Floor xerox copy of original Registration Slip.
Christy collection registration slip (1874):
Micronesia [added later - Caroline Is, Ponape (Ascension I.)
Belt of woven fibre, one end cut square, the other gathered up into a narrow band over which is fine plaited cord.....
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Rectangular paper label with red border, part torn. '[Bel]t of Grass cloth with [p]late of whale's bone. Ponape Island. J. Davidson Esq.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1874
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.9073.a
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1874C1.9073 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc.9073 (original Slip no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1980,Q.918 (also registered as)