animal remains
- Museum number
- Oc1906,1013.1564
- Description
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Length of 3-ply plaited leaf strung with shells (probably Mitridae). Shells pale to light brown in colour with horizontal grooves at base, faint axial striations and well defined spiral grooves; brown banding also visible on some shells. Shell aperture and circular perforation in top of each shell threaded with leaf cord and sewn into plaited fibre. Break in plaited fibre at one end; further plaited band extending from opposing end with small bundle of leaf cord.
- Production date
- 19thC-20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Length: 58 centimetres (laid flat)
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Width: 0.60 centimetres (cord)
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Width: 7.50 centimetres (laid flat)
- 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
- Oc1906,1013.1564
