slab
- Museum number
- Oc1939,11.3
- Description
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Register 1939
Wooden slab, tapering, with three projections at the broader end. Bound with bast. The spatulate narrower end is bound with bark cloth. Decorated with raised zig zag lines and incised triangles and arrowheads. Plain black.
- Dimensions
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Height: 42 centimetres
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Width: 18 centimetres
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Depth: 4.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Register 1939
Aitutaki, Cook Islands.
See Buck (Hiroa), 'Arts and Crafts of the Cook Islands', pp 331-337.
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Old label, printed with handwritten inserts:
Bristol Missionary Exhibition
Country South Seas
Description Idol
Lent by Miss Mann
Form Number Total Articles
33 13 28
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2015 9 July-19 Sept, London, SOAS Brunei Gallery, Missionaries and Idols in Polynesia
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1939,11.3
