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1899.29.3

Bone of a fish, very rough on one surface, probably used as a grater for food.

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1899.29.3

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Collection type
Object
Description
Bone of a fish, very rough on one surface, probably used as a grater for food.
Person
Other owner G. A. Frank
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source William Downing Webster
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1899
Date collected
By 1899
Acquisition information
Donated: 1899
Materials and processes
Material Fish Palate Bone
Dimensions
Length 156 mm, Width 34 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1899.29.3 Erroneous Accession Number: 1899.78.14 Other numbers: 3561
Research and responses

This object has the William Downing Webster number ‘3561’ written on it. In Webster’s stock book this number is within the sequence of over 200 objects listed as from ‘Rio Negro. Miranda. Amazonia’, purchased from ‘G.A. Frank’. In this listing, however, objects 3560-3569 refer to fibre bags. G.A. Frank appears to have been a dealer based in Hampstead who also sold ethnographic items to the British Museum in the 1890s. [JMC 20/06/2025]

Search terms: Animalia, Tool, Food and Drink, Fish Part, Grater, Food Accessory, Cassava Accessory