1888.31.3

Collection type

Object

Description

Candle wrapped with ribbon with inscription in silver lettering. [MJD 27/11/2012]

Long description

Candle wrapped with ribbon with inscription in silver lettering. The cylindrical candle is made of yellow beeswax. The ribbon is pink. [MJD 27/11/2012]

Geographical reference

Portugal

Europe > Southern Europe > Portugal

Azores Fenaes D'Ajuda

Cultural groups

Portuguese

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Osbert H. Howarth

PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers

Date / Period

Date made: 1800-1900

Date collected

1888

Acquisition information

Donated: 1888

Materials and processes

Material Wax, Material Ribbon Textile

Dimensions

Width 20 mm, Length 220 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1888.31.3

Research and responses

In a small exercise book found in the basement with other Museum documentation, titled 'Additions to Pitt Rivers collection, subsequent to its removal to Oxford, Pres. by Gen. Pitt Rivers' is the following entry:

'Oct 1888 Azoraque, flagellum, sacred candle and medida from St Michaels, Azores, obtained by Mr Howarth and purchase from him £5' [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

On a research visit to Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Pitt Rivers ms collections I found the following letter:

L559 Osbert H. Howarth 26.10.1888 “I understand Mr Tylor that in offering the Azorean “Disciplinia” for your museum at Oxford I have proposed somewhat too high a value for them. I was, as I said, rather at a loss how to value them at all but if you care to have them for, say, £5, I shall be pleased to send them up. I should prefer before leaving England again to see them housed in such a collection where they can been seen and compared.”

Search terms: Religion, Punishment and Torture, Writing, Textile, Punishment Device, Inscription, Religious Object