- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Elliptical pottery bowl with lip at each end. Rim decorated with incised lines. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 1/11/2004]
- Geographical reference
- Bougainville Buka Malasang
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 10/1930
- Date collected
- ?29 September 1929 - 8 October 1930
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1931
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 236 mm, Height: max 142 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1931.86.67 Other numbers: Blackwood no. 67
- Research and responses
Related Documents File - i) List of 'Contents of Cases sent from Soraken in April 1930.' ii) Notes on: 'Mourning Belt'; 'Map of Buka and Bouganville, areas from which most of the specimens were collected are marked in ink'; 'String Making'; 'Fire'; 'Buka Pottery'; 'Photograph illustrating the use of the implement for scraping coconut'; 'Rite for a new fishing kite, Petats'; 'Fans'; 'Woman's Hoods'; iii) Correspondence: Letter from A. D. Cotton of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew to Beatrice Blackwood, dated 4 November, 1931, thanking her for her map, list of specimens and 'plants used for food magic' which she had sent to be identified; Letter from Arthur Hill, director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to Beatrice Blackwood, dated 23 December, 1931, stating that he is enclosing the identification of the plants she had sent to Kew [this list does not appear to be with this RDF file]; iv) Duplicate photographs of Beatrice Blackwood's Buka material. See Beatrice Blackwood's notes on 'Buka Pottery' and 'the Pottery of South Bougainville' for details about the techniques and ceremonies involved in pottery making. Includes photographs of: 1. kneading the ball of clay to start a pot; 2. making the base; 3. putting on the first coil; 4. flattening out a coil; 5. finishing the flattening of a coil; 6. putting the pattern round the rim; 7. preparing to fire the pots; 8. stacking the pots ready for firing; 9. firing the pots; 10. taking out the fired pots; 11. trading pots for taro roots at Tarongen, N. Bouganville. 12. carrying pots home after a visit to Malasang; and 'breaking pots as a protest againt an insult. Tabut Village, N. Bougainville'; 'potter at work, Kieta District, S.E. Bougainville. In the background the bed of sticks laid.' [GI 30/11/2001]
1931.86.67
Elliptical pottery bowl with lip at each end. Rim decorated with incised lines. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 1/11/2004]
1931.86.67
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