bow

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Object Type
Museum number: Oc1944,02.1380
Description: Bow
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Solomon Islands
Materials: palm wood; fibre; gum (?); wax (?)
Curator's comments: Beattie catalogue reads: SOLOMON GROUP The provenance N.E. CHOISEUL given in the BM register, by ditto marks from Oc1944,02.1378, seems unfounded especially in view of the aquisition of history of 1378.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Harry Geoffrey Beasley; Previous owner/ex-collection: Charles M Woodford
Acquisition date: 1944
Acquisition notes: From a collection of artefacts acquired by Charles Woodford in Solomon Islands between 1895 and 1905, purchased by Harry Beasley in 1929 and numbered Beasley 2365 to 2416.
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Oc1944,02.1380
Additional IDs: Previous owner/ex-collection number: 2370 (Beasley catalogue)

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