garment;
bead
- Museum number
- Oc1878,1101.601
- Description
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Garment (part of a sis fale?) made of plaited coconut fibre (coir), pig(?) teeth, coconut shell and cone shell beads and red feathers.
- Production date
- 18thC-19thC(early) (before 1848)
- Dimensions
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Height: 48.50 centimetres
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Width: 9 centimetres
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Depth: 2.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Extracts from the British and Medieval Register 1757-1878, p.306
601 – Tongan Islands, bands of plaited fibre to which are attached loops terminating in fishes teeth, and with white beads, perhaps part of last. L. 16 ins.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1878
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1878,1101.601