tobacco sample
- Museum number
- Oc1927,1003.53.b
- Description
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Piece of tobacco.
- Curator's comments
- G.C. Wheeler's catalogue ETHNOGRAPHICA FROM ALU AND MONO reads:
41. kulukulu. Bamboo box; made and originally bought at Kaukauai (Buim); name in Telei is uomegu. Used to carry such things as Buim tobacco (burubusu)? matches (makiasi) bunka (nose ornament; in Telei, kanutu). There is a bit of tobacco inside.
Note sheet number: 1227.
- 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
- Oc1927,1003.53.b
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 41 (Wheeler catalogue in Eth Doc 1096)