mat
- Museum number
- Oc1938,1001.94
- Description
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Grass plaited rectangular mat, fringed, decorated with red wool.
- Dimensions
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Length: 198 centimetres (incl fringing)
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Width: 142 centimetres (incl fringing)
- Curator's comments
- 1938 register description:
Grass plaited mat, similar to [Oc1938,1001]93 except in the material, and also the arrangement of the red wool ornament which seems more haphazard..
Label "Tongan mat, about 1860, J.A. Lister's collection J.K.B.L., 1894."
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1938
- Acquisition notes
- Register reads, for collection Oc1938,1001 as a whole:
Given by Miss E. K. B. Lister, 11 Western Terrace, Falmouth. / Collected by the donor's father and brother (in whose memory they are given).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1938,1001.94