IDNO

D.56596.RDG

Description

Whale bone potuki. [Jocelyne Dudding, 25/2/2003]

The object depicted is either a mallet for a chisel, or a beater for either flax or fern roots. [Alex Nadin, 17/3/2003]

Place

Oceania Polynesia; New Zealand [Aotearoa]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

Collection Name

Ridgeway Collection

Source

Skinner, Henry Devenish

Format

Drawing

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.56592.RDG to P.56595.RDG and D.56596.RDG to D.56598.RDG were found in the envelope now numbered C263/3/5/ which was inside C263/3/, or the third drawer of the entire green cabinet formerly numbered as batch 149, and now re-numbered C263/.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program One. [Alex Nadin, 17/3/2003].