- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Perforated shell. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 18/8/2005]
- Person
- Field collector Robert Henry Codrington
- Field collector Melanesian Mission
- PRM source Robert Henry Codrington
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1888
- Date collected
- By 1888
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1920
- Materials and processes
- Material Shell, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 24 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1920.100.396
- Research and responses
Related Documents File - Letter from Codrington to Balfour, dated 13 July 1916 giving information regarding objects from San Cristoval, the Torres Islands and the Banks Islands, as well as plans for setting up a Museum at his former school. [See file for full text.] [MOB 15/11/2001]
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