knife
- Museum number
- Oc1939,05.31
- Description
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Register 1939
Stone knife.
- Dimensions
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Length: 4.90 inches
- Curator's comments
- Stuck on label: 'Hillmen/Utakwa R./D N Guinea/120.'
Register 1939
Collected from the Utakwa-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).
Mimika River.
‘Mountain People’. This includes Tapiro material, but some may also come from up river Papuans.
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
- Oc1939,05.31
- Additional IDs
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 120 (Wollaston number)