Coil of plaited and twisted cord with bands of light and dark brown design. [SM (Verve) 17/06/2014]

Collection type: Object
Description: Coil of plaited and twisted cord with bands of light and dark brown design. [SM (Verve) 17/06/2014]
Geographical reference: Fiji
Oceania > Melanesia > Fiji
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1878
Date collected: By 1878
Acquisition information: Transferred: 13/02/1886
Materials and processes: Material Plant Fibre, Material Pigment, Process Twisted, Process Dyed
Dimensions: Diameter: max 235 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.1405 Other numbers: 169 1390
Research and responses: * There is a note in the Ramsden collectors volume stating 'Retrospective numbers written in pencil down left hand column June 1975 E.S.G. Collated with A.M. but considerable problems encountered. All Ramsden seem to be in A.M.' Note that this exercise may have been the source of the confusion that occurred during Elizabeth Sandford Gunn's work on the Ashmolean collection with regard to numbers. In some instances, these numbers SEEM to have been used to number the objects (wrongly). [AP 16/7/99] This object is not mentioned in Collectors Miscellaneous XI Accession Book entry - Ramsden coll pages 223 - 255 [AP 21/7/99]

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