- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Scraper for coconuts, made of pearl shell, with serrated edge [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 20/4/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1936
- Date collected
- By 1942
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1936
- Materials and processes
- Material Pearl Shell, Process Carved, Process Ground
- Dimensions
- Length: max 90 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1942.1.7
- Research and responses
Note that there is a biography entry for a John Bodger but it does not give second name initial, there are 2 John Bodgers on the database and they are not likely to be the same person as one was collecting circa 1860 [the other one] and this one's dates are later and more in line with biography. Both were missionaries [AP 14/2/2003]
Search terms: Tool, Food and Drink, Scraper, Food Accessory
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