- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Univalve shell, having a round hole at the side, used as spokeshaves for peeling taro.
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 10/1930
- Date collected
- ?29 September 1929 - 8 October 1930
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1931
- Materials and processes
- Material Shell
- Dimensions
- Length: max 95 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1931.86.45 Other numbers: Blackwood no. 45
- Research and responses
Related Documents File - i) List of 'Contents of Cases sent from Soraken in April 1930.' ii) Notes on: 'Mourning Belt'; 'Map of Buka and Bouganville, areas from which most of the specimens were collected are marked in ink'; 'String Making'; 'Fire'; 'Buka Pottery'; 'Photograph illustrating the use of the implement for scraping coconut'; 'Rite for a new fishing kite, Petats'; 'Fans'; 'Woman's Hoods'; iii) Correspondence: Letter from A. D. Cotton of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew to Beatrice Blackwood, dated 4 November, 1931, thanking her for her map, list of specimens and 'plants used for food magic' which she had sent to be identified; Letter from Arthur Hill, director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to Beatrice Blackwood, dated 23 December, 1931, stating that he is enclosing the identification of the plants she had sent to Kew [this list does not appear to be with this RDF file]; iv) Duplicate photographs of Beatrice Blackwood's Buka material. [GI 29/11/2001]
Search terms: Tool, Food and Drink, Animalia, Specimen, Food Accessory, Shell