lime-container;
stopper
- Museum number
- Oc1906,1013.1884.a-c
- Description
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Three lime-containers made of gourds, tied together with vegetable fibre. One gourd (a) has a stopper made of vegetable fibre. Two undecorated gourds (b and c) have a hole in the top for a stopper. One container (c) has two pink spondylus shell discs attached. Traces of lime.
- Production date
- 1800-1904 (before 1904)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 12 centimetres (b - biggest gourd)
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Height: 14 centimetres (gourd with stopper)
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Width: 24 centimetres (altogether)
- Curator's comments
- Tied on Cooke-Daniels expedition label, handwritten: Tubetube 6963 & 74.
- 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
- Oc1906,1013.1884.a-c
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: 2018,Q.83 (mistakenly registered as a Q number in 2018)
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 6963 & 74 (Cooke Daniels Tubetube and Wagawaga catalogue)