Context (CMS Context)
Collected on the Cooke-Daniels Ethnographical Expedition.
Event Date 1/6/1997
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Betel-mortar. Cylindrical. Made of wood with adze-shaped projection decorated with curved zigzags.
Event Date 1/6/1997
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Collected during the Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea, led by Major William Cooke Daniels and Dr. Charles Seligman, accompanied by Dr. Walter Mersh Strong and Mr A.H. Dunning, 1903-1904.
Event Date 11/4/2017
Author: heather donoghue

Context (Other)
Catalogue card reads [handwritten in black ink:] 'E. MELANESIA. NEW GUINEA. Iwa.’; [later addition handwritten in blue ball point:] 'Marshall Bennetts’; [continues in black ink:] ‘1905.269. Betel-mortar.’; [later addition handwritten in black ball point:] ‘cylindrical & made of wood with'; [crossed out: '(openwork scroll end.)']; [continues:] 'adze-shaped projection decorated with carved zigzags. Collected by Cooke-Daniels Ethnographical Expedition 1903’; [continues in black ink:] ‘Donor. Major W. Cooke Daniels R.190['5' struck through]6.902.’ [Red circular sticker top right of card.]
Event Date 11/4/2017
Author: heather donoghue

Description (Physical description)
Cylindrical wooden betel mortar carved from the whole with elongated oval finial decorated with bands of zigzags in raised relief (three bands one side, one band on other). Top and bottom of mortar wider with horizontal bands of zigzags carved in raised relief and in-filled with lime. Centre decorated with vertical bands alternating between plain (in varying widths) and lime in-filled zigzags.
Event Date 11/4/2017
Author: heather donoghue

Description (Labels & Markings)
Museum label adhered to side of object reads: [Handwritten in black ink:] 'Betel-nut Mortor [sic]. Kadawaga, Trobriand, B.N.G. Major W. Cooke Daniels. 1905.269.'
Event Date 11/4/2017
Author: heather donoghue

Context (Other owners)
Appears as item 19 on Charles Seligman's catalogue of objects donated to the museum on behalf of William Cooke Daniels, see MAA Archive (OA2/12/9): 'Betel mortar, Kadawaga, Trobriands.' Following the expedition, Seligman catalogued and donated the collections on the understanding they were a gift from Cooke Daniels, the expedition's primary funder.
Event Date 11/4/2017
Author: heather donoghue