1945.6.106

Collection type

Object

Description

Rice-cutting knife in carved wooden frame. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 14/4/2005]

Geographical reference

Indonesia

Asia > South-eastern Asia > Indonesia

Malaysia

Asia > South-eastern Asia > Malaysia

Borneo

Person

Field collector Hubert John Aloysius Berkeley

PRM source Wolstan Edward Francis Berkeley

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1926

Date collected

1886 -1926

Acquisition information

Bequeathed: 1945

Materials and processes

Material Wood Plant, Material Metal, Process Carved, Process Perforated, Process Incised

Dimensions

Length: max 185 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1945.6.106

Research and responses

Related Documents File - 1945.6.1 contains a series of letters relating to the donation of Hubert Berkeley’s collection to the PRM. The first is dated 21/1/43, from W.E. Berkeley to Beatrice Blackwood, and mentions ‘trophies’ left to him by his brother, Hubert, that had been “hanging in our house Bruton Manor for the past twenty years”, as well as additional items Hubert had had at another location [illegible, Ch…jah?]. Wolstan Berkeley offers to leave these items to the museum by “will in the future”. The letter has an annotation by Blackwood: “note agreeing to this, 25/1/43”. Further letters follow, from Wolstan’s widow, Alice Berkeley, after his death, to Blackwood; in a letter dated 21/1/1945 it appears that although the items were not actually bequeathed to the PRM in her husband’s will, she still intended to donate them to the museum “although everything in the will is left to me, I see no reason why I shouldn’t let these things go to your museum during my life”. Further letters discussing arrangments for transfer of the objects follow, dated 26/1/1945, 25/4/1945 (which makes reference to an enclosed letter from a Colonel [H…illegible name] about the collection, to be returned), and 26/4/1945 [RTS 23/12/2003].

Search terms: Tool, Agriculture and Horticulture, Knife, Agricultural Tool