Coconut shell vessel with a plaited mat handle and white bead edging. [NC 25/06/2015]

Collection type: Object
Description: Coconut shell vessel with a plaited mat handle and white bead edging. [NC 25/06/2015]
Geographical reference: Fiji
Oceania > Melanesia > Fiji
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Date made: Before 06/1876
Date collected: By June 1876
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Coconut Fibre Plant, Material Bead, Material Coconut Husk Plant, Process Plaited
Dimensions: Length: max 150 mm, Height: max 45 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.7.48 PR Cat other PR nos: ? 3542
Research and responses: The sale at which this was purchased was announced in The Times, no. 29,238 (Thursday 25 April 1878), p. 16, col. a: 'To Collectors and Keepers of Museums. FOR SALE by Public AUCTION, at the London Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane, on Monday, 29th April, 1878, a collection of WARLIKE IMPLEMENTS, comprising spears, bows and arrows, clubs, &c.; also dresses, charms, idols, &c. from the Fiji and Solomon Islands. Catalogues and all particulars of DEVITT and HETT, Brokers, 16, Mark-lane.' [JC 6 11 2014]

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