dagger
- Museum number
- Oc1951,07.184
- Description
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Cassowary bone dagger with five gey coix seeds set in dark gum at the upper end. There is a drilled hole at one side of the upper part.
- Dimensions
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Length: 35.50 centimetres
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Width: 9 centimetres
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Depth: 5.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1951
Cassowary bone daggers, Vaimuru, 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).
Marked in white ink: 10
- 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
- Oc1951,07.184
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 10 (MS catalogue number)
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Miscellaneous number: 13 (MS catalogue page number)