- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Figure of a tortoise.
- Person
- Field collector Frederic James Vivian Minchin
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1887
- Date collected
- By 1887
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 10/1887, uncertain Transferred: 10/1887, uncertain
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 95 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1887.24.42 Other numbers: 42
- Research and responses
According to the OUMNH Annual Report 1899: 6 EA Minchin worked in the Department of Comparative Anatomy [AP 9/8/2007]
Search terms: Religion, Figure, Ritual and Ceremonial, Fishing, Pottery, Ornament, Religious Object, Animal Figure, Religious Offering, Bird Figure, Amulet, Fishing Accessory
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