animal remains
- Museum number
- Oc1906,1013.1252
- Description
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Unworked cowrie shell (Cypraea tigris) with dark brown spotting.
- Production date
- 19thC-20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Height: 4 centimetres
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Length: 7.30 centimetres (end to end)
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Width: 5 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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BM register notes: 'GUNA see Nos 1033 & 1034 [should read 1233 & 1234]'. Comment by Heather Donoghue, Ph.D candidate, UEA, 2020.
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Entry 6978C in William Cooke Daniels Tubetube catalogue reads: 'Guna shells in 3 stages of being made into IWAKIRI (6978)'. No further information for iwakiri given. BM register notes Guna used for making knives (see description for Oc1906,1013.1252). Three stages appear to be represented in Oc1906,1013.1252, Oc1906,1013.1234; Oc1906,1013.1233. Comment by Heather Donoghue, Ph.D candidate, UEA, 2020.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1906
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired during the Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea 1903-1904.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1906,1013.1252
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous Number: 6978C (Cooke Daniels Number)