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1884.113.41.1

Fiddle [.1] in shape of a peacock [.2].

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1884.113.41.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Fiddle [.1] in shape of a peacock [.2].
Date / Period
Date made: Possibly before 1880
Date collected
By 1880 May 6
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Brass Metal, Material Horse Hair Animal, Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Bird Feather, Material Membrane, Material Metal Wire, Process Hollowed, Process Carved
Dimensions
Depth 90 mm, Width 125 mm, Length 940 mm, Length 696 mm bow
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.113.41.1 Accession number: 1884.113.41.2 PR no.: 3/ 10750
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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