Goat horn flask with carved wooden top in the shape of a parrot. [SM 01/11/2007]

Collection type: Object
Description: Goat horn flask with carved wooden top in the shape of a parrot. [SM 01/11/2007]
Long description: Goat horn flask with carved wooden top in the shape of a parrot. The flask mouth is on the top of the parrot's head. The parrot has a beak that curves back in towards its chest. [SM 01/11/2007]
Geographical reference: Unidentified
Unidentified
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1874
Date collected: By 1874
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Goat Horn Animal, Process Carved, Process Incised
Dimensions: Width: max 31 mm, Length: max 260 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.140.29 PR Cat other PR nos: 2131
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]