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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Object number IPSMG:R.1921.93.6 Institution name Ipswich Collections Object name mat Description Mat made from loom-woven vegetable fibre. The shorter ends are fringed and two tassles extend from the longer lengths at intervals. Disintegrating. Tied on label: '1921.93 Fiji'. Collected and donated by Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell, Govenor of Fiji and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific 1918-1924. Index card notes it as Fiji, but this mat is likely made in the Santa Cruz Islands, by style. See Index cards for drawings. Production place Melanesia, Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz Islands Production period 20th Century, early, 20th Century Material vegetable fibre Tags Comments Add tag(s) Add comment

Object number

IPSMG:R.1921.93.6
Institution name

Ipswich Collections
Object name

mat
Description

Mat made from loom-woven vegetable fibre. The shorter ends are fringed and two tassles extend from the longer lengths at intervals. Disintegrating. Tied on label: '1921.93 Fiji'. Collected and donated by Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell, Govenor of Fiji and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific 1918-1924. Index card notes it as Fiji, but this mat is likely made in the Santa Cruz Islands, by style. See Index cards for drawings.
Production place

Melanesia, Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz Islands
Production period

20th Century, early, 20th Century
Material

vegetable fibre

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