- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- String of pink shell bead money with sections of black and white beads and tags of barkcloth and nutshells. [El.B 02/09/2011]
- Long description
- String of pink shell bead money with sections of black and white beads and tags of barkcloth and nutshells. One of a bundle of four [1920.100.7-10] joined together at both ends. [El.B 02/09/2011]
- Person
- Field collector Robert Henry Codrington
- Field collector Melanesian Mission
- PRM source Robert Henry Codrington
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1885
- Date collected
- By 1885
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1885, uncertain Transferred: 1886, uncertain
- Materials and processes
- Material Shell, Material Bark Cloth Textile Plant, Material Plant Nut-husk, Material Bead, Process Strung, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length: max 1803 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1920.100.8
- Research and responses
These items were most probably first received by the OUMNH in 1885, and recorded in the OUMNH Annual Report for that year, see entry above [AP 15/10/2012]
Related Documents File - Letter from Codrington to Balfour, dated 13 July 1916 giving information regarding objects from San Cristoval, the Torres Islands and the Banks Islands, as well as plans for setting up a Museum at his former school. [See file for full text.] [MOB 15/11/2001]
It is not clear why these items were placed in the Donations I accession book but it may be that there were received in 1886? [AP 20/10/99] This would seem to be the case, according to the entry in the Codrington catalogue [accession book? AP] . [CW 8/3/2001]
1920.100.8
String of pink shell bead money with sections of black and white beads and tags of barkcloth and nutshells. [El.B 02/09/2011]
1920.100.8
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