mat;
garment
- Museum number
- Oc1944,02.1721
- Description
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Mat or garment, loom woven with check pattern in dyed red, black and white fibre, and fringing.
- Production date
- 1912 (before)
- Dimensions
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Length: 279 centimetres (incl fringing)
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Width: 24.50 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1944
- Acquisition notes
- From a collection of Melanesian artefacts purchased by Harry Beasley from William Sinker in 1937, numbered Beasley 4450 to 4507. Sinker presumably acquired them while Captain of the Melanesian Mission ship 'Southern Cross' from 1902 to 1912.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1944,02.1721
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1944,02.1720-1721 (Previous group record)
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: 4450 (Beasley catalogue)