1884.70.29.1

Collection type

Object

Description

21 glass and stone flakes

Long description

21 glass and quartz flakes. [El.B DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 19/08/2010]

Geographical reference

Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Union Territory of India)

Asia > Southern Asia > Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Union Territory of India)

Andaman Islands

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Edward Horace Man

PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection

Date / Period

Date made: Possibly before 1878

Date collected

?By 1878

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Quartz Stone, Material Glass, Process Flaked

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.70.29.1 Accession number: 1884.70.29.2 Accession number: 1884.70.29.3 Accession number: 1884.70.29.4 Accession number: 1884.70.29.5 Accession number: 1884.70.29.6 Accession number: 1884.70.29.7 Accession number: 1884.70.29.8 Accession number: 1884.70.29.9 Accession number: 1884.70.29.10 Accession number: 1884.70.29.11 Accession number: 1884.70.29.12 Accession number: 1884.70.29.13 Accession number: 1884.70.29.14 Accession number: 1884.70.29.15 Accession number: 1884.70.29.16 Accession number: 1884.70.29.17 Accession number: 1884.70.29.18 Accession number: 1884.70.29.19 Accession number: 1884.70.29.20 Accession number: 1884.70.29.21 PR no.: [42/ 8386]

Research and responses

In June 2004 Dr. Sarah Milliken from the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, sorted through the boxes of Indian stone tools in storage at 60 Banbury Road and found 82 quartz flakes from this collection. These have not yet been numbered and there also appears to be some stored on the Lower Gallery. Others could be found at Osney or on display in the Museum. So the definite number in this collection is still uncertain. [ZM 15/2/2005]

See researchers file 'Milliken' for draft of A brief history of the stone tool collections from India in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford by Sarah Milliken from the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. [ZM 22/08/2008]

Associated publications

JAI, 1878: 462 'Tawlma-da. These flints (White quartz flakes) were in former days valued by them as they had no other material with which to tattoo or shave themselves. Nowadays they always perform these operations with glass which they of course obtain from us without any difficulty. 61a flakes of glass as made and used by them for the above purposes (In two glass jars) Pl XII' [Taken from 'List of Andamanese and Nicobarese Implements Ornaments etc presented to Major-General Lane Fox by EH Man esq and thus described by Mr Man 18th September 1877'.

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