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Description: | Hair ornament from Papua New Guinea. Two pointed hard wood sticks with a plaited red fibre attachment at one end terminating in a tassel. The plait is bound in two places with white fibre which has been oversewn. the item was ormerly in the collections of the London Missionary Society.
In Box with writing ?Bibles for Thorne? on side
Label suggesting box was posted in 1999. Jill Hasell of the British Museum has suggested ?this looks as if it could be from New Caledonia. Compare with British Museum Oc1841,0211.15. Things of this type sometimes incorporate flying fox fur and this looks as if it does.? | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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