knife
- Museum number
- Oc1982,06.50
- Description
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Knife made of cassowary bone.
- Production date
- 20thC (before 1981)
- Dimensions
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Height: 3.50 centimetres
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Length: 30 centimetres
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Width: 3.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Notes made by Maria Wronska Friend about Oc1982,06.49 and 50 recorded in Eth. Doc. 964
Knife dringa made of cassowary bone, used for cutting marita (long red pandanus fruit) and kau-kau. Kweptanap. Two pieces.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1982
- Acquisition notes
- Information from Donations Book: 'An ethnographic collection made by the vendor in the field in 1981.'
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1982,06.50
