- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Cassowary bone dagger. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 19/11/2004]
- Geographical reference
- West Papua
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Henry Nottidge Moseley
- Field collector HMS Challenger
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Possibly before 1876
- Date collected
- ?1872 - 1876
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Cassowary Bone Bird, Process Carved, Process Hollowed
- Dimensions
- Length: max 322 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.118.45 PR no.: 453/ 12191
- Research and responses
Note that the object might have been collected on the HMS Challenger expedition 1872 - 1876. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
1884.118.45
Cassowary bone dagger. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 19/11/2004]
1884.118.45
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