Description (Labels & Markings)
Round card label metal edge '37.317E'.
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
[From catalogue card:] ‘Set of dance ornaments. A: Woman's skirt. Two sets of twisted grass strands, dyed light and dark brown and crimson strung on string belt. B: Breast ornament of plaitwork and coix shells, worn round ?chest and held up by two short strips to a strand round the neck. Coix shells form an open work pattern below. C: Ornament, worn ?bandolina-wise, of sections of (?) bone, 0.25-0.5 cm thick, strung on cane and double, of few carved nuts sago palm among the bones. D: Similar to C but longer and with two bone beads in middle. E: Two anklets or leg ornaments, of coix shells sewn on strip of string work and with fringe of strings.'
Event Date 1/10/1998
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (References)
These objects reached the Museum together with object from Lucy Evelyn Cheesman. In a letter from Cheesman to Clarke dated 28 viii 1936 [cf MAA correspondence Archive, 1936], Cheesman enclosed a list of her own objects as well as a list of objects from F. Stuber, both presented to the MAA.  Stuber was assistant to the Assistant Resident of Hollandia in Netherlands New Guinea, as can be seen on top of the mentioned list. Cheesman writes in her book "The land of the red bird" (n.d. (1938), London: Herbert Joseph Limited) about her trip to Mt. Nomo together with "Herr Studer".  [Katharina Wilhelmina Haslwanter, Pacific Presences project]
Event Date 11/12/2017
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Amendments / updates)
There is a misspelling on the catalog card as well as on the digital record. The collector's name is not "Struber", but F. "Stuber". He was assistant to the Assistant Resident of Hollandia in Netherlands New Guinea, as can be seen on top of a list of objects he presented to the MAA. The list is preserved in the correspondence Archive 1936 and part of a letter from Lucy Evelyne Cheesman to Clarke. Furthermore, Cheesman writes in her book "The land of the red bird" (n.d. (1938), London: Herbert Joseph Limited) about her trip to Mt. Nomo together with "Herr Studer". I therefore changed the entry in the field "source" from Struber to Stuber. [Katharina Wilhelmina Haslwanter, Pacific Presences project]
Event Date 11/12/2017
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Amendments / updates)
Amended field "place" as well as "Cultural Group". According to the objects lists (cf MAA correspondence Archive 1936, letter Cheesman to Clarke dated 28 viii 1936) as well as the label attached to another object (1937.317) in the same collection, written in Cheesman's hand give as Cultural Group Savia (not Saira, as was mistakenly noted in "place" earlier). Furthermore changed "120 m" to "120 miles". [Katharina Haslwanter, Pacific Presences project]
Event Date 11/12/2017
Author: Katrina Dring