badge

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Object Type
Museum number: Oc1906,1013.44
Description: Mid weight wooden 'clan badge' carved from the whole. Pyroincised darkened two-pronged u-shaped finial with narrow cylindrical shaft below forming centre of three-pronged carved motif covered with pink pigment; splits near centre on both sides. Below, shaft narrows before flaring out to roughly finished, undecorated, cylindrical shape with darker patina and traces of white pigment at base, from which several splits extend.
Production ethnic group: Made by: Motu (?); Made by: Koita (?); Made by: Roro (?)
Production date: 19thC-20thC(early)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Port Moresby (?); Found/Acquired: Central Province (Papua New Guinea) (?)
Materials
Technique: carved; pigmented
Dimensions: Diameter: 3.50 centimetres; Length: 72 centimetres
Curator's comments: Circular metal rimmed British Museum label: New Guinea Papua [Central] [Pt. Moresby] the square brackets indicate stylistic identifications Also on the label: 'clan badge?'; Provenance based upon style. Comment by Heather Donoghue, Ph.D candidate, UEA, 2020.
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
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: Oc1906,1013.44

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