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1938.31.14

Arm ornament of a ring of layered palm leaf strips, painted with ?wax in stripes, with a fringe of palm leaf strips ending in shells. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 28/11/2005]

1938.31.14

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Collection type
Object
Description
Arm ornament of a ring of layered palm leaf strips, painted with ?wax in stripes, with a fringe of palm leaf strips ending in shells. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 28/11/2005]
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source James Thomas Hooper
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1938
Date collected
By 1938
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1938
Materials and processes
Material Palm Leaf Plant, Material Shell, Material Wax, Process Painted
Dimensions
Length: max 440 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1938.31.14
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: Ornament, Arm Ornament

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