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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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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
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source James Thomas Hooper
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].

Search terms: Weapon, Dagger