- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Rattle
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Elizabeth Bertha Turnbull
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date / Period
- Date made: 1864-1877?, uncertain
- Date collected
- 1864 to 1877?
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1886, uncertain Found unentered: Unknown date
- Materials and processes
- Material Gourd Plant, Material String, Process Dried
- Dimensions
- Length: max 110 mm, Height: max 110 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1903.129.5
- Research and responses
Mother Bertha (aka Elizabeth Bertha Turnbull or Sister Bertha) arrived in Hawaii on 11 November 1864 and left there on 2 February 1877 (see Thomas Jay Williams, 1965, Priscilla Lydia Sellon, London: S.P.C.K.) [ZM 18/02/2015]
Search terms: Music, Toy and Game, Children and Childcare, Musical Instrument, Rattle
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