- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Coconut shell cup, with jagged rim, and incised patterning around rim. [BR 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 13/12/2004]
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1930
- Date collected
- By 1930
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1930
- Materials and processes
- Material Coconut Husk Plant, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Length: max 110 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1930.71.10
- Research and responses
Related Documents File [James Thomas Hooper, Catalogue of Ethnographical Material] - The museum has a photocopy of Hooper's accession and dispersal records, which are bound as two volumes and kept in a separate box file. Items are arranged according to Hooper's own numbering system [RTS 21/11/2003].
Search terms: Vessel, Food and Drink, Cup, Food Accessory
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