Plaited armlet, with decorative pattern. Displayed along with 1931.86.204 to 1931.86.208 on a cylindrical museum mount with a flat base. [ZM 6/11/2003]

Collection type: Object
Description: Plaited armlet, with decorative pattern. Displayed along with 1931.86.204 to 1931.86.208 on a cylindrical museum mount with a flat base. [ZM 6/11/2003]
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; Bougainville
Person: Field collector Beatrice Mary Blackwood; PRM source Beatrice Mary Blackwood
Date / Period: Date made: Before 10/1930
Date collected: By October 1930
Acquisition information: Donated: 1931
Materials and processes: Material Plant Fibre, Process Plaited, Process Basketry
Dimensions: Width: max 20 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1931.86.209 Other numbers: Blackwood number 208
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: Ornament, Basketry, Narcotic, Arm Ornament, Tobacco Accessory

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