Context (CMS Context)
Note on catalogue card reads: "A T.V. back 18 Oct" (!!?)
Event Date 1/6/1996
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Tatooing implement made of bamboo with comb-like shell appendage.
Event Date 1/6/1996
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Exhibited: On display in living room of Pasifika Styles exhibition (5 May 2006 - February 2008). F. Veys, 15/5/2006'
Event Date 5/5/2006
Author: rachel hand

Context (Display)
'Exhibited: Tatau: Samoan Tattooing/Global Culture Photographs by Mark Adams, held in the South Lecture Room 18 June to 25 September 201. R. Hand 2010/11/2
Event Date 18/6/2010
Author: rachel hand

Loan (Exhibition)
Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge, 02/10/2011 to 28/09/2018, Exhibition: Astronomy & Empire
Event Date 2/10/2011
Author: Rachel Hand

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2017.3882 | Remedial
Event Date 5/7/2017
Author: Kirstie Williams

Loan (Exhibition)
Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge, 30/4/2019 to 30/7/2019, Exhibition: Astronomy & Empire
Event Date 30/4/2019
Author: rachel hand

Loan (Exhibition)
Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge, 07/05/2019 to 30/8/2019, Exhibition: Astronomy & Empire

Original display object label reads, '[...] This fine tattooing implement (right), made of bamboo, turtleshell, and bone, is just one example from a wide variety of tools and ornaments chosen by Pacific Islanders to gift or trade in return. Cook's medals suggest that British officers often took these exchanges as evidence of Polynesian enthusiasm for commerce. But objects like this tattooing instrument may have been offered to the British to integrate them into complex networks of sociability.'
Event Date 7/5/2019
Author: rachel hand