armlet
- Museum number
- Oc1939,08.40
- Description
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Cane mourning armlet, covered with gum and coloured in bands of red, white and yellow. The armlet has a pendant of hair string ending in a ball of gum, set with black and red seeds.
- Production date
- 1900-1912 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 2.20 centimetres
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Width: 19.50 centimetres
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Depth: 12 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Register 1939
Collected by H P Rogers, ornithologist, before 1914, in Australia.
Bathurst Island.
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Rogers visited Melville Island August 1911 - September 1912 while collecting for ornithologist G. Mathews.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Acquisition notes
- Register reads, for collection Oc1939,08: Collected by H P Rogers, ornithologist, before 1914, in Australia. However inspection of the original correspondence from Mathews reveals that this should be J P Rogers, who was Mathews' ornithological collector in Northern Australia.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1939,08.40
