animal remains;
religious/ritual equipment(?)
- Museum number
- Oc1951,07.109
- Description
-
Register 1951
Totem object (?), a crocodile skull, the jaws are lashed together with rattan at the eye sockets and snout.
- Dimensions
-
Length: 27 inches
- Curator's comments
- Register 1951
A totem object? See Holmes, p146-7. If so, probably Namau.
(Refers to the whole Oc1951,07 series):
A large ethnographical collection from the Namau and Ipi tribes of the Purari delta and Elema regions, Papuan Gulf, made by J.H.Holmes (missionary) between 1893 and 1900. The remainder of the collection (about one third) is in the Liverpool Museum.
See J.H.Holmes, "In Primitive New Guinea". See Eth Doc,1020 (M.S.Catalogue).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1951
- Acquisition notes
- Register information: Collection 'made by J.H. Holmes (missionary) between 1893 and 1900.'
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1951,07.109