Cuff

Description

Cuff of woven sinnet with a glass bead design of diamond shapes sewn on the outer surface in red and blue within a blue lattice-work on a white ground: Melanesian, Vanuatu

Museum reference

A.1954.175

Collection

Oceania

Object name

Cuff

Production information

Vanuatu, Melanesia

Associations

Collector: Davis, Edward Henry Meggs, Admiral, 1846 - 1929
Beasley Collection

References

CARREAU, Lucie (2009 PhD Thesis), Collecting the Collector: Being an Exploration of Harry Geoffrey Bealsey's Collection of Pacific Artefacts Made in the Years 1895-1939, University of East Anglia.