Accession No

E 1892.25.1


Description

Man's dress, soft string tassel (coloured red) attached to a many stranded cord of opossum fur


Place

Oceania; Australasia; Australia; Northern Territory; Port Essington


Period


Source

Stirling, Edward Charles (Dr) [donor]


Department

Anth


Reference Numbers

E 1892.25.1; MAA: AR 1892.47 (11&12); E 1892.25.2


Cultural Affliation


Material

Bark; Plant Fibre; Fur


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (CMS Description)
A: Male dress, soft string tassel (coloured red) attached to a many strand cord of oppussum fur
B: Female dress: shield shaped disc of bark attached to similar cord as the male dress
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (CMS Context)
Transcribed from register as object was not included on the database.
(Bio) Sterling, Esq. M.D
I have added suffixes .1-2, R.Hand 11/06/2007

Event Date
Author: maa


Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card E 1892.25.1 reads [handwritten in black ink:] ‘D. E.C. Stirling, M.D. R.1892.47, (11).’; [later addition handwritten in black ballpoint:] ‘appendix III’. Catalogue card E 1892.25.2 reads [handwritten in black ink:] ‘D. E.C. Stirling, M.D. R.1892.47, (12).’; [later addition handwritten in black ballpoint:] ‘appendix III’. Red circular sticker lower right corner of catalogue card.
Event Date 2/1/2013
Author: Remke van der Velden


Description (CMS Description)
Catalogue card E 1892.25.1 reads [handwritten in black ink:] ‘E. Australia. Port Essington. 1892.25, (1). Male dress.’; [later addition handwritten in black ballpoint:] ‘Soft string tassel (coloured red) attached to a many strand card of opposum [sic opossum] fur.’

Catalogue card E 1892.25.2 reads [handwritten in black ink:] ‘E. Australia. Port Essington. 1892.25, (2). Female dress.’; [later addition handwritten in black ink:] ‘North Australia. Shield of wood and girdle of human hair.’; [later addition handwritten in black ballpoint:] ‘bark’. Sketch of object with measurements 5 ¾” by 8”.
Event Date 2/1/2013
Author: maa


Context (Amendments / updates)
The amendment stated in 1892.25 (see 11/06/2007 R.Hand) that it was E 1892.25 that were Australian aprons, this prefix has therefore been added to this record; E 1892.25 A-B. This therefore differentiates these two 1892.25 records.
Event Date 8/1/2018
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Context (Amendments / updates)
The dual system of accession numbers runs only from 1894- 1916 inclusive and so the Australian clothing from the current record should be noted as 1882.25. As it matches the accession register entry it has been allocated the suffix 'Record 1' while the Burmese jar has been allocated to Record 2.
Event Date 10/3/2020
Author: rachel hand


FM:145951

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