- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spinifex fibre sample for making string.
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1898
- Date collected
- By 1898
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1898
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Fibre
- Dimensions
- Length: max 180 mm, Width: max 62 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1898.75.4
- Research and responses
Related Documents File - Handwritten inventory and pricelist of, presumably, all the objects sold to the Pitt Rivers Museum. [MOB 9/10/2001]
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