vegetal remains
- Museum number
- Oc1927,0310.18
- Description
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Nut.
- Dimensions
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Length: 3.60 centimetres (larger nut)
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Length: 3.36 centimetres (smaller nut)
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Width: 3.38 centimetres (larger nut)
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Width: 2.85 centimetres (smaller nut)
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Depth: 3.34 centimetres (larger nut)
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Depth: 2.83 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Donor's information: "Put in eye sockets of enemy skulls"
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G.C. Wheeler's catalogue ETHNOGRAPHICA COLLECTED IN SIMBO (Eth.Doc.1096) reads:
38. (cf.13,above). kikope, nut of mbuni tree; used to put in the eye-sockets of enemies' skulls put in the djelepandi.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1927
- Acquisition notes
- Gerald C Wheeler was an anthropologist who researched in Solomon Islands in 1908 to 1909 on an expedition with W. H. R. Rivers and A. M. Hocart. He began on Simbo but spent most of his time on Alu. He gave collections of artefacts to the British Museum in 1927, registered as Oc1927.0310 and Oc1927.1003 and documented in Eth Doc 1096.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1927,0310.18
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 38 (Wheeler catalogue (Simbo) in Eth Doc 1096)