offering
- Museum number
- Oc,LMS.52
- Description
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Propitiatory offering made of a bundle of black human hair, bound at one end with a covering of white barkcloth secured with sinnet cord.
- Dimensions
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Length: 9 inches (of handle - from registration slip)
- Curator's comments
- British Museum registration slip, written in 1890?:
Hervey Islands.
A bundle of black human hair, the end made as a handle by binding with white tapa & sinnet cord.
36 Propitiatory offering
64
"South Seas No 85"
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1911
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc,LMS.52
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1911C27.52 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1890,Loan (originally loaned to BM in 1890 by LMS)
