1898.75.29

Collection type

Object

Description

Green glass Kimberley point.

Geographical reference

Australia

Oceania > Australia and New Zealand > Australia

Person

Field collector Emile Louis Bruno Clement

PRM source Emile Louis Bruno Clement

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1898

Date collected

By 1898

Acquisition information

Purchased: 1898

Materials and processes

Material Glass, Process Recycled, Process Flaked

Dimensions

Length: max 115 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1898.75.29

Associated publications

Reference: Ancestors, artefacts, empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish museums, Main author: Gaye Sculthorpe; Main author: Maria Nugent; Main author: Howard Morphy; London, 2021, Page: 128, Page illustrated: 129, Notes: 'Kimberly point’ and tools used in its production, c.1890s, from northwest Australia. These three objects reveal the technique of manufacture of Kimberly points. They would be written about by Pitt Rivers Museum curator Henry Balfour in the Journal Man in 1903. Collected by Emile Clement (1844-1928) or his agent, c.1890s. Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. PRM 1900.20.2 Stone tool. L. 6.7 cm. PRM 1900.20.3 Bone tool. L. 11 cm. PRM 1898.75.29 Kimberly point. L. 11.5 cm.

Illustrated in black and white (PRM image PRM000016362) as Figure 23.2 on page 531 of 'Stone Tools', by Rodney Harrison, in Dan Hicks and Mary C. Beaudry (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 521-42. Caption (same page): 'Fig. 23.2 Glass Kimberley Point from the collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, collected by Emile Clement (courtesy of Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, accession number 1898.75.29).' See also the author's discussion on pages 531-2. [JC 15 11 2019]

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