board;
badge
- Museum number
- Oc1906,1013.40
- Description
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Decorated marea board carved from the whole; top narrows to a point with carved notches in sides. Lengths of coconut leaf along edges secured with leaf ties through circular perforations. Raised central rib on one side with sections cut away and regularly spaced perforations either side. Large off centre circular perforation near top. Front decorated with opposing bands of lightly incised zigzags in-filled with red and white pigment; reverse decorated with central zigzag and horizontal lines in red and white.
- Production date
- 19thC-20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Height: 8 centimetres
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Length: 191 centimetres
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Width: 35 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Identified by Heather Donoghue as the board illustrated in C.G. Seligman, The Melanesians of British New Guinea, 1910, page 243. It is from Siria Village, Yule Island, Central Province.
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Object appears in Seligman (1910: 243, Fig.23). 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
- Oc1906,1013.40