Accession No
Z 7552
Description
Ornament - Card 1: 'KIRKUB Nose-stick. Group 3. Long, thick & more or less straight.'
Card 2: 'Polished shell, probably Tridacna, long, thick, and more or less straight.'
Put through perforation nasal septum for decoration.
Place
Oceania; Australasia; Australia; Queensland; Torres Strait; Mer
Period
Source
Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr) [collector]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
Z 7552; MAA: Z 7552; OH 34
Cultural Affliation
Material
Shell; Tridacna Shell
Local Term
Kirkup
Measurements
Events
Context (CMS Context)
Collected by: Haddon, Dr A.C. in 1889; Ref. Plate: Pl. IX, fig. 8
' Exhibited: 'Torres Strait Islanders: An Exhibition Marking the Centenary of the 1898 Cambridge Anthropological Exhibition' at UCMAA, July 1998 to December 2000, with following label " Three nose ornaments kirkup; gubu. Three nose ornaments made of shell. Worn through the nose for dances, sometimes further ornamented with fresh green grass shoots. Torres Strait. c. A.C. Haddon 1889 & 1898 Z 7536; Mer. Z 9739; Z 7552." F. Veys, 7/8/2006'
Event Date 3/11/1994
Author: maa
Description (CMS Description)
Card 1: 'KIRKUB Nose-stick. Group 3. Long, thick & more or less straight.'
Card 2: 'Polished shell, probably Tridacna, long, thick, and more or less straight.'
Put through perforation nasal septum for decoration; Good.
Event Date 3/11/1994
Author: maa
FM:79459
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