- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wooden bowl carved and inlaid with shell. Carved with human, frigate bird and fish designs. [MdeA 18/12/2008]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1874
- Date collected
- By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884 Found unentered: Unknown date, uncertain
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Shell, Process Carved, Process Inlaid
- Dimensions
- Length 600 mm, Height 245 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.6.25 PR Cat other PR nos: 2078
- Research and responses
In Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Pitt Rivers ms collections there is a handwritten list [P141] headed 'A catalogue of M.General [sic - Major General] Pitt Rivers' Anthropological Collection Objects illustrating Animal Form conventionalised in Ornamentation from different countries' which seems to be a list of all items which were associated with the display entitled 'Illustrations of Human and Animal form Cases 92 - 93' in Bethnal Green and South Kensington Museums. A photocopy of this list is held by Alison Petch [AP 23/03/2005]
- Associated publications
- Illustrated in colour on page 32 of The Pitt Rivers Museum: A World Within, by Michael O’Hanlon (London: Scala, 2014). Caption (same page) reads: ‘20 Wooden bowl, inlaid with shell, in the form of a frigate bird. Solomon Islands Exhibited at Bethnal Green Height 245 mm Donated by General Pitt-Rivers 1884.6.25’ [MJD (Verve) 18/2/2016]
Search terms: Food and Drink, Vessel, Figure, Bowl, Bird Figure, Fish Figure, Food Accessory