1884.68.2

Collection type

Object

Description

Cast of harpoon head of carved reindeer antler.

Geographical reference

France

Europe > Western Europe > France

[Aquitaine Dordogne Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil La Madeleine]

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Unknown Collector

PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection

Date / Period

Archaeological period: Upper Palaeolithic

Date collected

?By 1880

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Reindeer Antler Animal, Material Animal Antler, Material Plaster, Process Cast, Process Incised, Process Carved

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.68.2 PR no.: 2/ 10491

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]

The original tusk that this cast was made from appears in B. Plate XIV figure 4 in Henry Christy and Édouard Armand Isidore Hippolyte Lartet, 1875 volume [also published with Thomas Rupert Jones], Reliquiae aquitanicae: Being contributions to the archaeology and palaeontology of Pèrigord and the adjoining provinces of Southern France [published in London by Williams & Norgat]. This book can be accessed online at http://www.archive.org/details/reliquiaeaquitan00lartuoft. [MJD 05/02/2014]

Search terms: Figure, Reproduction, Weapon, Animal Figure, Cast, Harpoon-head