Wooden cylindrical drum without membrane with decoratively carved handle and string cord attached. [FC 9/9/2008]

Collection type: Object
Description: Wooden cylindrical drum without membrane with decoratively carved handle and string cord attached. [FC 9/9/2008]
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; Milne Bay Province Kiriwina Goodenough District Trobriand Islands
Person: Field collector G.H. Bardsley; PRM source Olive Bytheway
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1889-1890
Date collected: 1889 - 1890
Acquisition information: Donated: 1960
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material String, Process Carved, Process Hollowed, Process Decorated, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Length x Width: max 655 x 97 mm at head
Object numbers: Accession number: 1960.3.6
Research and responses: According to Margaret Reeson in 'Pacific Missionary George Brown 1835-1917: Wesleyan Methodist Church', page 309, Reverend Samuel B. Fellows was a Missionary in British New Guinea and by 1913 was a Minister in Western Australia. Reverend William Bromilow led the mission to British New Guinea from 1891. (page 209). [MJD (Verve) 24/08/2015]

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