Drawing showing an engraved image of a mammoth

Collection type: Object
Description: Drawing showing an engraved image of a mammoth
Long description: Large drawing by Alfred Robinson reproducing an Upper Paleolithic engraving on bone showing a mammoth, presumed to have been used to illustrate a lecture by E. B. Tylor
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Cultural groups: English
Person: Maker Alfred Robinson (presumed); Field collector Edward Burnett Tylor; PRM source Edward Burnett Tylor
Date / Period: Date made: Circa 1892-1898 Archaeological period: Palaeolithic
Date collected: By 1917
Acquisition information: Donated: 1917 Found unentered: 01/1944
Materials and processes: Material Paper Plant, Material Pigment, Process Drawn
Object numbers: Accession number: 1944.1.47
Research and responses: This is a large drawing by Alfred Robinson reproducing (in reverse) the cast of an Upper Palaeolithic engraving on bone showing a mammoth, presumed to have been used to illustrate a lecture (or lectures) by E. B. Tylor. The cast of this engraving [1884.68.6] was part of the Pitt-Rivers founding collection, one of eighteen 'casts of bones with pre-historic carvings'; the bone itself was discovered in a cave in Dordogne, France. (See Related Documents File.) [PG 28/01/2014]

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