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1960.3.23

Armlet decorated with a string of blue, white, red and yellow beads with two banana seeds and two shell pendants. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 12/9/2005]

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1960.3.23

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Collection type
Object
Description
Armlet decorated with a string of blue, white, red and yellow beads with two banana seeds and two shell pendants. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 12/9/2005]
Geographical reference
Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea
Massim D'Entrecasteaux Islands Dobu Island
Person
Field collector G.H. Bardsley
PRM source Olive Bytheway
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1889-1890
Date collected
1889-1890
Acquisition information
Donated: 1960
Materials and processes
Material Conus Shell, Material Bead, Material Banana Seed Plant, Process Perforated, Process Strung
Dimensions
Diameter: max 82 mm external, Diameter: max 70 mm internal
Object numbers
Accession number: 1960.3.23
Research and responses

Related Documents File - Letters from Mrs. Bytheway to Blackwood. The first is dated 11 December 1952: '... A few weeks ago I had a session with Mother re the New Guinea curios. here's a list - not as big as I thought. Let me know what you think of it. [List of 22 objects] There used to be many more - but they have been distributed over the years. I think the Q[ueens]land Museum had a number of things. ...' The second letter is dated 15 August 1959: '... Now, after many talks about it, I have had word that the box of curios is finally on its way to the Museum - I do not know if it will be of value to you - but felt I must, at least try... If they are of no value to you, then destroy them - as they would be of no value to any one else - I only wish I could have sent you the complete collection which Father brought down in 1890 - he lectured and showed lantern slides through N. S[outh] Wales and Q[ueens]land after returning from the mission at Dobu (Trobriand Is.) and, as a child, I well remember church halls being transformed by all of his curios, to show in aid of a Fete, perhaps. I think most of the articles were sent to the Q[ueens]land Museum years ago, but feel I'd like to make sure that none were wasted if they could be of use. He was G. H. Bardsley - and as a young man, in 1889, joined the first Wesleyan Mission as carpenter & lay preacher at Doba (with Rev. W.E. Bromilow and S.B. Fellows). ... I do hope there will be something of real value to the Museum in the small collection. ...' [MOB 19/2/2002]

According to Margaret Reeson in 'Pacific Missionary George Brown 1835-1917: Wesleyan Methodist Church', page 309, Reverend Samuel B. Fellows was a Missionary in British New Guinea and by 1913 was a Minister in Western Australia. Reverend William Bromilow led the mission to British New Guinea from 1891. (page 209). [MJD (Verve) 24/08/2015]

Search terms: Ornament, Trade, Arm Ornament

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