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1884.62.19

Handle of adze, with carved head resembling an anthropomorphic form. [FB 23/01/2014]

1884.62.19

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Collection type
Object
Description
Handle of adze, with carved head resembling an anthropomorphic form. [FB 23/01/2014]
Date / Period
Date made: Possibly before 1881
Date collected
?Prior to 1881
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions
Length: max 491 mm, Width: max 271 mm, Depth: max 48 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.62.19 PR no.: 9/ 13082
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
Drawn in black and white as no.1 on page 161 of An Album of the Weapons, Tools, Ornaments, Articles of Dress etc. of the Natives of the Pacific Islands Part 2. The caption reads: New Guinea 1. Adze handle of brown wood for shell blade Pitt-Rivers Mus: Oxford. [ZM 12/05/2008]

Search terms: Tool, Figure, Fishing, Adze, Hook, Fishing Accessory