bead;
currency
- Museum number
- Oc1909,-.63
- Description
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String of stone money beads
- Dimensions
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Height: 1.39 centimetres (average larger bead)
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Height: 0.65 centimetres (average smaller bead)
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Width: 1.25 centimetres (average larger bead)
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Width: 0.51 centimetres (average smaller bead)
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Depth: 0.30 centimetres (average larger bead)
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Depth: 0.25 centimetres (average smaller bead)
- Curator's comments
- Register reads: [Shell money from the bush -] Guadalcanar - now obsolete - composition unknown.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1909
- Acquisition notes
- Register reads:
Given by C. M. Woodford Esq. Silverleigh, Tonbridge.
Charles Woodford visited and resided in Solomon Islands between 1888 and 1914, first as a naturalist, later as the first British Resident Commissioner.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1909,-.63
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1909C3.63 (old CDMS no.)