Context (Related Documents)
Original card has drawing.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink: 'Dawlish Cave, Barbados, Sidney Russell. 1883. (Hon. H. King) H.W.F.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
According to the label, collected in 1883 by Hon. H. King.
Event Date 1883
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Display)
Exhibited: Maudslay Gallery West Indies Case until 1986.
Event Date 1986
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Perforated shell ornament, the shape of the shell being used as a snout-like projection, with two larger circular depressions above, and ten smaller ones below, a horizontal incised line which follows the contour of the projection. ?Frog; Broken; ?Frog
Event Date 29/9/1988
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Exhibited: Andrews Gallery, "The Americas 1492", 15 June 1992 to 24 September 1994.
Event Date 15/6/1992
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Incomplete ornament made from the spine of a large shell, likely that of a conch (Strombus sp.). The natural shape of the shell spines forms a rounded central projection; a transverse line has been incised across the surface of the ornament, bisecting the apex of the projection; two circular points have been incised above the line and ten points below the line; two rounded tabs are arranged either side of the ornament, each pierced centrally by a circular hole, presumably for suspension.
Event Date 5/6/2024
Author: Zahni Blumenthal