1899.62.16

Collection type

Object

Description

Forehead ornament: tridacna shell disc overlaid with openwork turtle shell disc. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 24/2/2006]

Geographical reference

Solomon Islands

Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands

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, Process Carved, Process Openwork, Process Repaired (local)

Dimensions

Diameter: max 116 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1899.62.16

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, Head Ornament