animal remains;
bag(cloth)
- Museum number
- Oc1906,1013.1925
- Description
-
Cloth bag with drawstring top, stamped with the numbers 492. The bag contains seven white cowrie shells with natural pink interior (?Ovula costellata), perforated at posterior. Inside is a handwritten piece of paper reading: 'Tubetube BUNDOGA Teste Is.'.
- Production date
- 19thC-20thC(early)
- Curator's comments
- Inside the bag is a small piece of cream paper. Written by hand, in black ink: 'Tube Tube. BUNDOGA. Teste Is'.
- 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
- Oc1906,1013.1925