wrist-guard
- Museum number
- Oc1939,05.219
- Description
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Bracer, wrist-guard made of basketry (wooden twigs?).
- Production date
- 19thC to early 20thC (Before 1913 likely)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 9.50 centimetres
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Length: 10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Printed label: on reverse in pencil '249'.
See Oc1939,05.77-78 for similarities.
Register 1939
Collected from the Mimika River region, Southern Netherlands, New Guinea. Collected by the late A.F.R Wollaston on the Ornithological Expedition, 1910 (cf. series 1912.0611, 1922.10-18).
'Coast people.’
See Wollaston, ‘Pygmies and Papuans’. Haddon & Layard, ‘Ethnographical Collections, Utakwa River, New Guinea’. Rawling, ‘Land of the New Guinea Pygmies’, Eth. Doc. 1018.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1939,05.219
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 249 (Wollaston number)