fire-tongs
- Museum number
- Oc1979,01.54
- Description
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Register 1979:
Fire tongs made of bamboo (?).
- Dimensions
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Length: 27.40 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1979:
Bamboo [?] fire tongs.
WOLA term = KOPA.
All objects from PAPUA NEW GUINEA WOLA People, WAS Valley, SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS PROVINCE.
Large collection from the WOLA people of the Southern Highlands, made by the vendor in 1976-78 in the WAS Valley.
Duplicate pieces sold to the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (Pitt Rivers coll. 1979.21).
See Eth.Doc.1177.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1979
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1979,01.54