Jew's harp
- Museum number
- Oc1951,07.84
- Description
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Register 1951
Bamboo jew's harp with vegetable fibre cord and ornament in black pigment, now partly rubbed away.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 26 centimetres
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Width: 2 centimetres
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Depth: 2.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1951
Elema.
(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
- Oc1951,07.84
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 15 (MS catalogue page number)