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: rachel hand

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: rachel hand

Context (Display)
Displayed as part of the Australia Case (No.s 15 & 16) , Maudslay Hall, from 2005.
Event Date 2005
Author: rachel hand

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: rachel hand

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 cord of opposum [sic possum] 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: rachel hand

Context (Amendments / updates)
The amendment stated in 1892.25 (see 11/06/2007 R.Hand) that E 1892.25 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: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
cords appear to be twisted strands of human hair rather than possum fur. Remains of ochre on the cords and bark body
Event Date 23/11/2020
Author: rachel hand

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

Description (Physical description)
Woman's dress. Shield shaped piece of bark attached to multiple strands of finely plaited hair.
Event Date 10/3/2025
Author: Eve K Haddow