Accession No
E 1900.198 B
Description
Narrow plaited bands with fringed ends, with dyed pattern red and brown. Women's dress.
Place
Oceania; Melanesia; Vanuatu [New Hebrides]; Aoba
Period
Source
Selwyn, John Richardson (Bishop) [?collector]; Selwyn, Annie Catherine (Mrs) [?vendor; ?donor]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
E 1900.198 B; MAA: AR 1901.1636-1638; E 1900.243-245
Cultural Affliation
Material
Grass
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (CMS Context)
Notes on catalogue card: "Accession book includes these items twice, once as part of Selwyn Collection, once as purchased. 1901 Report says they were purchased."
"On examining material, two narrow bands as overleaf were found, and also two wider bands, fringed at both ends. Patterned in mauve (brown?) were also found bearing the same number." Loaned to exhibition "Arts of Vanuatu" at Museum der Kulturen, Basel 15 March - 10 April 1997, and at Musée National des arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie "Vanuatu, Océanie" 2 October 1997- 2 February 1998.
Event Date 18/5/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn
Description (CMS Description)
Narrow plaited bands with fringed ends, with dyed pattern red and brown. Women's dress.
Event Date 18/5/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn
FM:269373
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