- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Cassowary bone dagger.
- Person
- Field collector Walter Edward Guinness
- Field collector HMS Rosaura
- PRM source Walter Edward Guinness
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 02/1936
- Date collected
- November 1935 - February 1936
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1936
- Materials and processes
- Material Cassowary Bone Bird, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 280 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1936.34.42
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