Plaster cast of piece of reindeer antler with engraved figure of man hunting aurochs.

Collection type: Object
Description: Plaster cast of piece of reindeer antler with engraved figure of man hunting aurochs.
Geographical reference: France
Europe > Western Europe > France; Aquitaine Dordogne Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil Laugerie Basse
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Palaeolithic
Date collected: ?By 1880
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Plaster, Material Animal Antler, Material Reindeer Antler Animal, Material Pigment, Process Cast, Process Incised, Process Carved, Process Painted
Dimensions: Length x Width: max 248 x 46 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.68.17 PR no.: 17/ 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]

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