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Carter No.: 227b

Handlist description: Curved stick with bark and beetle-wing decoration

Card/Transcription No.: 227b-02


227 (b) (Cont.)

B. Collar of thick sheet gold. Inscription round it in relief (see separate sheet) C. Patterned bands in coloured barks, gold & beetle wing. (a) Four thin lines of light yellow bark, alternating with three of dark. (b) <> Outlines gold on bark(?) Squares at bottom dark bark. <> = red bark <> blue beetle wing. (c) Three thin light lines as in (a), alternating with two of dark. (d) <> Scrolls of two thin lines of light bark, with one of dark between. Centre diamonds & side spaces beetle: side diamonds red bark. (e) Same as (c). (f) <> Ground dark: outlines light: centre diamonds & side spaces blue beetle: two side diamonds gold on bark(?).

Card no. 227b-02 relating to Carter no. 227b
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