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1910.42.3.3

Painted plaster cast of a stone tool [SM (Verve) 22/9/2016]

1910.42.3.3

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Collection type
Object
Description
Painted plaster cast of a stone tool [SM (Verve) 22/9/2016]
Geographical reference
Australia
Oceania > Australia and New Zealand > Australia
Tasmania
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Edward Burnett Tylor
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1910
Date collected
By 1910
Acquisition information
Donated: 1910
Materials and processes
Material Plaster, Material Pigment, Process Cast, Process Painted
Dimensions
Thick: max 22 mm, Width: max 73 mm, Length: max 85 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1910.42.3.3
Research and responses

In Tylor's introduction to H. Ling Roth 1899 'The Aborigines of Tasmania' 2nd edition '...Some of the best of these [stone tool collections from Tasmania in the Pitt Rivers Museum] were sent by Mr Alexander Morton of the Hobart Museum, and my own collection [he presumably means his private collection], containing numerous formed implements and chips of varied quality, was mostly procured for me by Mr Williamson of Brown's River...' [p. vii]

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