1931.86.328

Collection type

Object

Description

Pair [1931.86.327 - 328] of plaited grasswork armlets; natural and dyed red grass fibres forming a zig-zag patterned band. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 24/11/2005]

Geographical reference

Papua New Guinea

Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea

Bougainville Kieta

Person

Field collector Beatrice Mary Blackwood

PRM source Beatrice Mary Blackwood

Date / Period

Date made: Before 11/1929

Date collected

November 1929

Acquisition information

Donated: 1935

Materials and processes

Material Grass Fibre Plant, Process Plaited, Process Basketry

Dimensions

Width: max 15 mm, Length: max 100 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1931.86.328 Other numbers: Blackwood number 324

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, Arm Ornament