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1895.22.287

Jingle of nut shells used in dancing, worn on ankle or held in hand. [DCF Court Team 6/2/2003]

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1895.22.287

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Collection type
Object
Description
Jingle of nut shells used in dancing, worn on ankle or held in hand. [DCF Court Team 6/2/2003]
Geographical reference
Solomon Islands
Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands
Ngela and Havalo Districts, Florida Island south coast
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1894
Date collected
1894
Acquisition information
Donated: 1895
Materials and processes
Material Plant Nut, Material String, Process Perforated, Process Plaited
Dimensions
Diameter: max 240 mm approx
Object numbers
Accession number: 1895.22.287
Research and responses

For an account of Somerville's collection from the Solomon Islands, see 'The H. B. T. Somerville Collection of Artefacts from the Solomon Islands in the Pitt Rivers Museum’, by Deborah Waite, in The General’s Gift: A Celebration of the Pitt Rivers Museum Centenary, 1884–1984 (JASO Occasional Papers, no. 3), edited by B. A. L. Cranstone and Steven Seidenberg (Oxford: JASO, 1884), pp. 41–52. (Copy in RDF: Collectors: Somerville.) [JC 24 2 2007]

For an account of Somerville's collecting in the Solomon Islands, see 'Notes and Queries, Science, and “Curios”: Lieutenant Boyle Somerville’s Ethnographic Collecting in the Solomon Islands, 1893–1895’, by Deborah Waite, in JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, Vol. XXXI, no. 3 (Michaelmas 2000), pp. 277-308. (Copy in RDF: Collectors: Somerville.) [JC 24 2 2007]

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