pot
- Museum number
- Oc1884,0412.7
- Description
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Unfinished pot of clay.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 6 centimetres
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Width: 12 centimetres
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Depth: 11.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Guppy (1887) describes the making of pots in the 'Bougainville Straits', meaning Shortland Islands, and notes that "Specimens of the pots, the impliments, the clay, and other accessories, have been placed in the Ethnographical Collections of the British Museum."
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1884
- Acquisition notes
- Presented by the Lords of the Admiralty 1883 / collected by H. B. Guppy Surgn. R.N.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1884,0412.7