Small bracelet of woven and plaited coconut fibre. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 21/11/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Small bracelet of woven and plaited coconut fibre. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 21/11/2005]
Geographical reference: New Caledonia (Special Collectivity of France)
Oceania > Melanesia > New Caledonia (Special Collectivity of France)
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1886
Date collected: By 1886
Acquisition information: Transferred: 19/04/1886
Materials and processes: Material Coconut Plant, Process Woven, Process Plaited
Dimensions: Diameter: max 56 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.1567
Research and responses: According to Peter Gathercole this arm ornament is definitely from New Caledonia. It is not part of the Forster collection from Cook's 2nd voyage, and probably could not be associated with any of Cook's voyages. [PG 14/3/97].