pounder
- Museum number
- Oc.9166
- Description
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Food pounder made of stone.
- Production date
- 19thC(early)-19thC(mid) (before 1873)
- Dimensions
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Height: 16 centimetres
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Width: 10 centimetres
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Depth: 9.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Registration slip description (1875):
Strong's Island (Oualau)
Pounder made of dark grey stone with a circular base & a square projection with facets at the top.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1983–1986 16 Dec-29 Jun, London, BM, Museum of Mankind, Pattern of islands: Micronesia yesterday and today
- Acquisition date
- 1875
- Acquisition notes
- Charles. F. Wood donated artefacts to the British Museum in 1872, 1874 and 1875, which he seems to have collected on voyages in the Pacific islands from the late 1860s. He documented his 1873 voyage in his book 'A Yachting Cruise in the South Seas' (1875).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.9166
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1875C1.9166 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1875C0207
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1980Q1.910