Accession No
Z 7587
Description
Process of manufacture of a dibi-dibi. Top of cone shell more fully ground at top.
Place
Oceania; Australasia; Australia; Queensland; Torres Strait; Mer
Period
Source
Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr) [collector and donor]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
Z 7587; OH 80; 198 E [pencil writing]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Shell; Conus Shell
Local Term
Dibi-dibi
Measurements
Events
Context (References)
Ref. Plate: Pl. VIII, fig. 61
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Collected by Dr Alfred Cort Haddon in 1898.
Event Date 1898
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu
Description (CMS Description)
Card 1: 'Process of manufacture of a dibidibi. Top of cone shell more fully ground at top.'
Card 2: 'Part-manufactured example. Top of cone shell ground mainly on apex.'
Good.
Event Date 3/11/1994
Author: maa
Context (Display)
Exhibited in 'Torres Strait Islanders: An Exhibition Marking the Centenary of the 1898 Cambridge Anthropological Exhibition' at UCMAA, July 1998 to December 2000, with following label, 'Shells wauri; waiwi. Shells were used for making various ornaments. These show the sstages of making the chest ornament, dibidibi. Mer. c.A.C. Haddon. 1898.'
Event Date 7/1998
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu
FM:79489
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