Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue cards notes "Duplicate" in red. (Bio) Rev.W.C.O. O'Farrall, Melanesian Mission. Donor's surname has been transcribed variously on box-lists and catalogue cards both as O'Ferrall and O'Ferrell, R.Hand 6/4/2009.
Event Date 30/10/2007
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
On catalogue card: 'Shell armlet.'
Event Date 30/10/2007
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Trochus shell armlet. Natural white patina. Decorated on outside with incised pattern of repeated triangles. Two lines run vertically through the top and bottom of each triangle.
Event Date 12/6/2013
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card reads [handwritten in black ink:] '1920 ['575' added in red ink] Solomon Islands. Shell armlet. Rev. W.C.O. O'Ferrall.'; [handwritten in red ink:] 'Duplicate'. [Red circular sticker top right of card.]

'1920.575' handwritten in black ink on object; '9 Mala [crossed out in pencil] Solomon' handwritten on object in pencil.

Used as a shell valuable for exchange and worn by women just above the elbow, often several at a time. [Tim Thomas 30.05.2012]
Event Date 12/6/2013
Author: Heather Donoghue

Description (Labels & Markings)
'9 Mala Solomon' inscribed in pencil on the object. '9' refers to a number system devised by O'Ferrall - the numbers seem to correspond to types of objects.
Event Date 8/5/2017
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Labels & Markings)
'1920.575' inscribed in black ink on the object.
Event Date 8/5/2017
Author: Lucie Carreau