- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Neck or head ornament made of Paradoxurus (wild cat) bones bound onto a twisted stringwork core. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 8/8/2005]
- Geographical reference
- 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
- ?Prior to 1878
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Bone, Material Cat Bone Animal, Material String, Process Bound, Process Twisted
- Dimensions
- Length: max 270 mm doubled
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.73.60 PR no.: 125/ 11935
- Research and responses
This object is given both the fraction number 11935 and the date 21.1.78 in the accession book, but if my theory about the fraction numbers is correct this fraction number should match an object with a date of early 1881 not 1878 and it seems possible therefore that one or other of these is not correct. If the fraction number is correct then the match to the green book entry is incorrect and the delivery catalogue entry would support that supposition. Note that the green book entry has been made on the basis of geographic place and description of object. However if the object has the number has the number 11935 in reality one would expect this object to have been delivered to South Kensington Museum in early 1881 and not 1878. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
- Associated publications
- JAI, 1878: 460 'Baian-tâ-da necklace and chaplet of wild cat Pl XII The above are worn by both sexes round head or neck as ornaments only and not like the Châuga-tâ (v ticket 46) in order to cure pain etc (v also no 73)' [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'].
Search terms: Ornament, Neck Ornament, Head Ornament