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Notes: Handwritten label accompanying specimen reads "Peroxide of manganese used by natives [] their bodies Admiralty Ids" and " "Pyrolusite". Another handwritten label reads "Iral ds". Another handwritten label on blue paper reads "Peroxide of manganese used by the natives of the Admirality Islands for blackening their faces and bodies. Called by them Laban which term the also apply to iron ---". To see Oxford University Museum of Natural History's database go to http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/collect/lifecoll2.htm