Plaited fibre armlet with twill patterns, tied together by the label with four other armlets [1932.53.14-17]. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 23/11/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Plaited fibre armlet with twill patterns, tied together by the label with four other armlets [1932.53.14-17]. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 23/11/2005]
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; Western Province Fly River
Person: Field collector Sydney Douglas Burrows; PRM source Mrs M.O. Burrows; PRM source Mrs Gordon Canning
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1932
Date collected: By 1932
Acquisition information: Donated: 1932
Materials and processes: Material Plant Fibre, Process Twill Plaited, Process Basketry
Dimensions: Diameter: max 70 mm, Width: max 37 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1932.53.18
Research and responses: According to Dr M. O’Hanlon, A.R.M. probably stands for Assistant Resident Magistrate. [CW 23/2/2000] Confirmed by Sylvia Schaffarczyk, a PhD student from the Australian National University, in September 2004 during a visit to research collections made by Australian colonial administrators in Papua New Guinea. [ZM 3/9/2004]

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