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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Object number IPSMG:R.1940.1.31 Institution name Ipswich Collections Object name charm Description Charm made of wood encased in a woven vegetable fibre pouch. The wooden piece is pointed at both ends with a beak-type cut-out at this other. This end is incised with decoration and infilled with lime. A circular needle or piece of metal is embedded in the pouch. Collected in Port Moresby, Woodlark Island and Samarai and purchased from Mrs. A.E. Cockrill, 24 Jeffries Road, Ipswich. Production place Melanesia, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Central Province Production period 19th Century, 20th Century, early Material wood, vegetable fibre, lime Tags Comments Add tag(s) Add comment

Object number

IPSMG:R.1940.1.31
Institution name

Ipswich Collections
Object name

charm
Description

Charm made of wood encased in a woven vegetable fibre pouch. The wooden piece is pointed at both ends with a beak-type cut-out at this other. This end is incised with decoration and infilled with lime. A circular needle or piece of metal is embedded in the pouch. Collected in Port Moresby, Woodlark Island and Samarai and purchased from Mrs. A.E. Cockrill, 24 Jeffries Road, Ipswich.
Production place

Melanesia, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Central Province
Production period

19th Century, 20th Century, early
Material

wood, vegetable fibre, lime

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