knife
- Museum number
- Oc1927,1003.13
- Description
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Knife of pearlshell
- Dimensions
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Height: 7.70 centimetres
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Width: 7.60 centimetres
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Depth: 2 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Wheeler's catalogue ETHNOGRAPHICA FROM ALU AND MONO (Eth.Doc.1096) reads:
55. bao. Shell; used for trimming the pota leaves to be made into sararang mats, and for scraping the skin off taro before boiling it. This specimen is worn down through repeated sharpening on a stone or knife.
Note sheet number: 1804.Ref.Th.
- 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
- Oc1927,1003.13
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 55 (Wheeler catalogue in Eth Doc 1096)