Baibai; cycas nut, spun on string to emit a note.

Collection type: Object
Description: Baibai; cycas nut, spun on string to emit a note.
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; New Britain Bismarck Archipelago
Person: Field collector George Brown; PRM source Trustees of the Bowes Museum; PRM source Bowes Museum
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1908
Date collected: By 1908
Acquisition information: Exchanged: 1924
Materials and processes: Material Plant Nut, Material String, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Width: max 35 mm nut, Length: max 55 mm nut
Object numbers: Accession number: 1924.58.37 Other numbers: 4
Research and responses: The Reverend George Brown retired from the missionary service in 1908, so it may be assumed with fair certainty that all the items in his collection were obtained by then. No doubt it would be possible to establish more exact dates of collection for individual objects from the primary and secondary literature relating to him and his collection (see entry on Biographies database for more information). [JC 23 3 2001]

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