Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card reads: [Handwritten in black ink:] '1905.233 (1-4) New Guinea S.E. Coast Waima. 4 plaited armlets. Collected on the Cooke Daniels Expedition Major W. Cooke Daniels.' [Red circular sticker top right of card]
Event Date
Author: Heather Donoghue

Description (Physical description)
Circular band of plaited cane strips, yellow-brown in colour; outer layer of cane abraded in places.
Event Date 2/4/2017
Author: heather donoghue

Context (Other owners)
Following the expedition, Charles Seligman catalogued and donated the collections made during the Daniels Ethnographical Expedition on the understanding they were a gift from Major William Cooke Daniels, the expedition's primary funder.
Event Date 2/4/2017
Author: heather donoghue

Description (Labels & Markings)
Museum sticker attached to inside of armband reads: [Handwritten in black ink by Gerald Montagu Benton:] 'Daniels' Ethnographical Expedition. | E 1905. 233 (4). Wickerwork armlet. Waima, B. N Guinea. Major W Cooke Daniels 1905'.'

Oval card museum label on pink cotton string reads: [Handwritten in black ink:] '1905.233 (4)'.
Event Date 2/4/2017
Author: heather donoghue

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.

The expedition visited Waima from 3 to 10 June 1904.
Event Date 2/4/2017
Author: heather donoghue