Native pillow (block) formed from br - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 42502 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 158.00 CASUARINACEAE Casuarina sp | Entry Book Number | 63.1898 | |
| Artefact Name | Native pillow (block) formed from br | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Fiji | TDWG Region | Fiji | ||
| Parts Held | Native pillow (block) formed from br | Geography Description | Fiji Islands | ||
| Uses | Native pillow (block) formed from brUse: MATERIALS - Wood User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Wood | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Chapman P, Waverley Cigar Stores | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: These pillows are used by the men to preserve their head dress. They wear their hair very long and frizzed out at right angles to the head, and coloured with a mixture of red clay and lime. The use of the pillow produces a large callus on, the nape of the neck. The women (with the exception of those of Royal rank) wear short hair. Opuscular source: Memo from Chapmans, 10 London Rd., Kingston-on-Thames, to JR Jackson at Kew, 25.05.1898. Dear Sir, I am sending by carrier a piece of wood, which has been described to me as a block used at executions in such places as Benin, the notches underneath represent the number of victims who have been beheaded. I will endeavour to find out from the gent who brought it over more particulars, which, I will let you have. A second letter follows, 27 May 1898: In answer to your letter of 26 May. It was, as you suggest, from the Fiji Islands, and it was my mistake to mention Benin. | ||||