- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Small semicircular basket. A plaited cord at the top. [RM [OPS move] 25/11/2016]
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Henry Mangles Denham
- Field collector HMS Herald
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1854
- Date collected
- 1854
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Pandanus Plant, Process Twill Woven, Process Twill, Process Basketry
- Dimensions
- Length: max 239 mm, Width: max 175 mm, Depth: max 9 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.43.15
- Research and responses
For an account of the 1852-1861 voyage of the Herald, see The Voyage of HMS Herald to Australia and the South-west Pacific under the Command of Captain Henry Mangles Denham, by Andrew David (Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press (Melbourne University Press), 1995). [JC 20 2 2015]
An announcement in the 'Sales by Auction' section of The Times (no. 27,942, Thursday 5 May 1874, p. 16, col. a) of the sale of Admiral Denham's 'ethnographic' collection reads: 'The Collection of Natural History Specimens and Native Weapons, &c., of Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Denham, formed during the voyage of H.M.S. Herald. Mr J. C. STEVENS will SELL by AUCTION, at his great Rooms, 33, King-street, Covent-garden, W.C., on Friday, March 6th at half-past 12 precisely, the MUSEUM of NATURAL HISTORY SPECIMENS and NATIVE WEAPONS and ORNAMENTS, collected by Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Denham in the South Sea Islands, consisting of rare birds, shells, minerals, insects, &c., carved wood spears, clubs, bowls, ivory ornaments, musical instruments, native dresses, &c. Also some stuffed birds in cases, heads and horns, minerals and fossils, &c. On view the morning of sale, and catalogues had.' [JC 20 2 2015]
1884.43.15
Small semicircular basket. A plaited cord at the top. [RM [OPS move] 25/11/2016]
1884.43.15
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