ear-ornament
- Museum number
- Oc1999,Q.130
- Description
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Ear-ornament made of penannular disc of cone shell with small central circular piercing.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 4.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Found apparently unregistered in Ethnography Department collections in 1999. Acquired with 1976,Oc16 collection.
Compare with Oc1906,1013.195
Compare with Oc1906,1013.883
Compare with oc1906,1013.1558
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1976
- Acquisition notes
- Collected by the Reverend James Chalmers in Papua New Guinea between 1865 and 1900. Acquired with collection 1976,Oc16 given by Mrs.B.M.Wolvehamp and Mrs.J.M.Haskew, but not registered at the time.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1999,Q.130
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1976,16 (acquired with this collection)