disc;
bead;
sample
- Museum number
- Oc1906,1013.74
- Description
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Brass tin with "PHEONIX MATCH COY HELMET BRAND ANTWERP No. 4" in raised relief on lid, originally containing broken pieces of red-pink spondylus shell (now separate).
- Production date
- 19thC-20thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 0.10 - 3.50 centimetres (shell)
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Height: 2 centimetres (tin)
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Length: 3.60 centimetres (tin)
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Width: 7.30 centimetres (tin)
- Curator's comments
- Expedition paper note inside tin handwritten in pencil by Charles Seligman reads: 'ARGEVA - half ground & broken fragments of shell used Tatana 8/1/[19]04'. Note the correct spelling is ageva (Seligman 1910: 93). Paper very fragile; reverse printed with "...as one article. Boxes not... from PARKE,.. 111 Queen Victoria S...". 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
- Oc1906,1013.74
