animal remains
- Museum number
- Oc1906,1013.17
- Description
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V-shaped branch of white fossilized coral, roughly textured with smoothed, shiny area on one side. Front mostly white, reverse has pale brown patina.
- Production date
- 19thC-20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 4.50 centimetres (longest branch)
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Length: 40 centimetres (longest branch)
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Length: 28.50 centimetres (shortest branch)
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Width: 9.50 centimetres (side of shortest branch to end of projecting stump)
- Curator's comments
- BM register notes in faint pencil: 'Port Moresby [?]polishing shell armlet'. 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
- Oc1906,1013.17
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1982,Q.560
