armlet;
bracelet
- Museum number
- Oc1951,07.150
- Description
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Register 1951
Bracelet made of curved shell plates pierced and fastened to wood slats with vegetable fibre string.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 8.20 inches
- Curator's comments
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Register 1951
Oc1951,07.150-157: Some of these are probably "young girl's dress" (p.15)
(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).
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Similar to Oc1894,-.59
- 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
- Oc1951,07.150