- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Dagger with carved and painted wooden handle and carved blade imitating that of sting ray spines. Decorated with red beads set in mud/ resin coated over string work section. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 19/11/2004]
- Geographical reference
- Admiralty Islands Bismarck Archipelago
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1934
- Date collected
- By 1934
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1934
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Material Bead, Process Carved, Process Painted
- Dimensions
- Length: max 503 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1934.64.7
- 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].
1934.64.7
Dagger with carved and painted wooden handle and carved blade imitating that of sting ray spines. Decorated with red beads set in mud/ resin coated over string work section. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 19/11/2004]
1934.64.7
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