- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Woman’s skirt made of split plant fibre fringing with strip of palm leaf. Rolled and tied with string. [FB 26/02/2015]
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1936
- Date collected
- By 1942
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1936
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Fibre, Material Palm Leaf Plant, Process Split, Process Tied
- Dimensions
- Width: max 140 mm rolled, Depth: max 95 mm, Length: max 540 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1942.1.29 Other numbers: 14
- 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]
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