- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bundle of young pandanus leaves, used for making armlets. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 30/11/2005]
- Cultural groups
- Anga
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1937
- Date collected
- By 1937
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1938
- Materials and processes
- Material Pandanus Plant, Material Plant Leaf
- Dimensions
- Width: max 13 mm bundle, Length: max 270 mm bundle
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1938.36.729 Other numbers: Blackwood ii 729
Search terms: Plant, Specimen, Ornament, Basketry, Arm Ornament
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