Accession No
Z 7637
Description
Gaiter - Card 1: 'Bundle of leglets - makamak.'
Card 2: 'Bundle of plaited coconut fibre rings.'
Worn below knee by both men and women in dance ceremonies.
Place
Oceania; Australasia; Australia; Queensland; Torres Strait
Period
Source
Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr) [collector]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
Z 7637; MAA: Z 7637; OH 1052
Cultural Affliation
Material
Root; Coconut Root
Local Term
Makamak
Measurements
Events
Context (CMS Context)
Moore's book is based upon research involving an examination of all Haddon material in British and Australian Museums. Cf. also 25.688, Torres Strait 1898? (stored in the British Museum collection); PR.I.56, Torres Strait, 1888 (Pitt Rivers Museum); Collected by: Haddon, Dr A.C. in ? 1898; Ref. Plate: Pl. III, fig. 3. Pl. V, fig. 10. Pl. XXIX, fig. 1
Event Date 3/11/1994
Author: maa
Description (CMS Description)
Card 1: 'Bundle of leglets - makamak.'
Card 2: 'Bundle of plaited coconut fibre rings.'
Worn below knee by both men and women in dance ceremonies.
Event Date 3/11/1994
Author: maa
FM:79398
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