- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Cylindrical bamboo container with the address "Curators Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford" painted on down the length of the vessel in green paint. The vessel was used to send reproductions of uli body-painting designs to the Pitt Rivers Museum. The main body of the container is made from a long piece of bamboo (or similar plant). One end the container is closed and the other it has been carved away to enable a lid to be fixed to that end. For the lid made from a evaporated milk tin see 1998.39.3. [CW [OPS move] 13/07/2016]
- Cultural groups
- Igbo
- Person
- Field collector Mervyn David Waldegrave Jeffreys
- PRM source Mervyn David Waldegrave Jeffreys
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: 1933?, uncertain
- Date collected
- 1933 ?
- Acquisition information
- Found unentered: 23/06/1998
- Materials and processes
- Material Tin Metal, Material Pigment, Material Bamboo Plant, Material Paper Plant, Process Recycled, Process Inscribed, Process Painted
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 75 mm total, Diameter: max 75 mm, Height: max 665 mm total, Height: max 658 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1998.39.3.1
- Research and responses
For the assumed collector's own account of Ibo body-painting and body-painting designs, including how he made his collection, as well as reproductions of some now in the PRM, see his 'Negro Abstract Art: Or Ibo Body Patterns', in South African Museums Association Bulletin, Vol. VI, no. 9 (March 1957), pp. 219-229. (Copy in RDF: 1942.13.) [JC 27 11 1998]
Search terms: Vessel, Transport and Travel, Box, Food and Drink, Carrying Device, Food