game-piece
- Museum number
- Oc1952,02.5
- Description
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Game-piece made from a disc of coconut shell. Concavo-convex. The convex surface has sunk dots.
- Production date
- 18thC-19thC (before 1846)
- Dimensions
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Height: 1.50 centimetres
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Width: 7.50 centimetres
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Depth: 7.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1952
Similar to Oc1952,02.4
Used in the game of squails.
Tonga.
Obtained in 1845, probably by Capt. Sir Everand Home, R.W., H.M.S. North Star, apparently from the last Tamaha, the daughter of the Tui Tonga's unmarried daughter who held the highest secular rank.
These specimens have apparently been acquired by the B.M. previously, and presumably returned to the donor. See "Statement of Progress and Acquisitions made in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography, 1893" (Eth.Doc.1080). Also cf. +6187, 6188.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1952
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1952,02.5