Knife made from a meleagrina shell valve [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 20/4/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Knife made from a meleagrina shell valve [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 20/4/2005]
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; Massim D'Entrecasteaux Islands Goodenough Island
Person: Field collector Diamond Jenness; PRM source Committee for Anthropology, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1913
Date collected: By 1913
Acquisition information: Donated: 1913
Materials and processes: Material Shell
Dimensions: Length: max 97 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1913.88.104
Research and responses: Related Documents File - Copy of a letter from Ruth Vyse to Elizabeth Edwards dated 9 January 1984 "...I've been having a quick look at UDC/C/2/4 which is listed briefly as 'correspondence etc. re Jennes expedition 1911 - 17'. It appears to consist of the papers of R..R. Marett who was secretary of the committee for Anthropology. They cover the years c. 1911 - 20 and contain a number of letters from Jenness. The papers deal with his expedition to New Guinea, 1911 - 12 and a further expedition in the Canadian Arctic, c. 1913 - 14 of which Jenness was a member. They also cover Marett's efforts which were pursued while Jenness was on active service during the second half of the First World War. There's a short paper by Jenness on the Ethnological Results of the Canadian Arctic Expedition..." [no more exists of the letter] [EB 7/11/2001]

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