1931.86.233

Collection type

Object

Description

Ornament of white shell disc overlaid with fretwork turtleshell disc. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 24/2/2006]

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 Shell, Material Turtleshell Reptile, Process Carved, Process Openwork

Dimensions

Diameter: max 88 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1931.86.233 Other numbers: Blackwood number 232

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, Dance, Pendant, Dance Accessory