Carved grey stone figure of a human or monkey. The figure is seated with knees bent and feet drawn together. The left elbow is resting on the left knee and the chin is resting in the left hand. [JC [OPS Move] 29/6/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Carved grey stone figure of a human or monkey. The figure is seated with knees bent and feet drawn together. The left elbow is resting on the left knee and the chin is resting in the left hand. [JC [OPS Move] 29/6/2017]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Costa Rica
Latin America and the Caribbean > Central America > Costa Rica
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector R. Gurney; Field collector Robert Gurney; PRM source R. Gurney; PRM source Robert Gurney
Date
Date collected: By 1934
Acquisition information: Donated: 1934
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Process Carved
Dimensions: Width: max 60 mm, Depth: max 60 mm, Height: max 110 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1934.15.1
Research and responses: A R. Gurney from New College was a member of the Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire from 1900 to 1903 [AP 1/11/2002] This is probably the father of Oliver Robert Gurney, Robert Gurney described in the DNB entry for his son as: Robert Gurney (1879–1950), zoologist ... The Gurneys were an old Norfolk family, formerly Quaker, afterwards Church of England, and Gurney's father, a gentleman of private means, lived at Ingham Old Hall, near Stalham. If it is not him then it might be his son Oliver Robert Gurney, see biographies [AP 29/4/2009]

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