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Collection Ledgers

Object | Part of Collected Archives collection

item details

NameCollection Ledgers
ProductionWilliam Ockleford Oldman; creating agency; 1902-1916
Classificationledgers
Materialspaper, ink, cardboard
Materials SummaryBound volumes
Techniqueshandwriting
Registration NumberCA000231

Overview

William Ockleford Oldman was a trader and collector of ethnographic objects from countries around the world including the Pacific.

These ledgers operate a running number system. For New Zealand & North American objects use these ledgers in conjunction with series CA000234; Oldman Collection Classification Cards; Oldman, William Ockleford; 1902-1916

Te Papa would like to acknowledge the assistance received from The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) to digitise this collection, the Smithsonian’s Transcriptions Centre for transcription services and to all the volunteers who assisted with transcriptions of the individual pages.