- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Forehead ornament: tridacna shell disc overlaid with openwork turtle shell disc. With two strings of red, blue and white beads. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 24/2/2006]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector H.A. Tufnell
- Field collector Henry Archibald Tufnell
- Field collector Sir William MacGregor
- PRM source Henry Anson
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1899
- Date collected
- By 1899
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1899
- Materials and processes
- Material Tridacna Clam Shell, Material Turtleshell Reptile, Material String, Material Bead, Process Carved, Process Openwork
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 114 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1899.62.14
- Research and responses
Related Documents File - Handwritten note to Balfour from H. Anson, dated 21 March 1899: 'If you would kindly call at 34 Chester Square on Col. Tufnell he will have been advised by me of your coming. The curios are in his house at Wimbledon & he will give you ever facility. The greater [?sic] part of the Collection belonged to Sir Will MacGregor late Governor of British New Guinea, he is in London now and I will ask him to make a note or two for me about some of the things. There is a catalogue but as the books here left to the Revd. Lt. Tufnell and it was included probably in this despatch I cannot get at it until the library is unpacked. i should think Col Tufnell could wait until you return from Italy.' Photocopy of the armourial bearings of Sir William MacGregor, 1847 - 1919, Governor of Newfoundland 1904 - 1909. [MOB 9/10/2001]
This is a kapkap or forehead ornament [LM 17/1/2000]
Search terms: Ornament, Trade, Head Ornament
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