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1884.68.4

Cast of carved and engraved tusk or antler


1884.68.4

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Collection type
Object
Description
Cast of carved and engraved tusk or antler
Geographical reference
[Midi-Pyrénées Tarn-et-Garonne Bruniquel Grotte de Bruniquel]
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Upper Palaeolithic
Date collected
?By 1880
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Plaster, Material Animal Antler, Material Reindeer Antler Animal, Process Cast, Process Incised, Process Carved
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.68.4 PR no.: 4/ 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]

For more information on the site of Bruniquel please see: Rouzaud F, Soulier M, & Lignereux Y. 1996. La Grotte de Bruniquel. Spelunca 60: 28–34. [MN 08/05/2009]

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