1894.26.48.2

Collection type

Object

Description

Spherical nut shell, one half only. Stored in original box. [ASh [OPS move] 23/09/2016]

Long description

Spherical nut shell, cut into two halves. The shell is oval in shape and is beige in colour with a pitted surface. The inner surface is hollowed and smooth for the nut to fit into. For the other half of the shell see 1894.26.48 .2 and for the kernel see 1894.26.48 .3. Stored in original box. [ASh [OPS move] 23/09/2016]

Geographical reference

Solomon Islands

Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands

New Georgia

Person

Field collector Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville

Field collector HMS Penguin

PRM source Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1893

Date collected

1893

Acquisition information

Donated: 1894

Materials and processes

Material Plant Nut-shell, Material Plant Nut

Dimensions

Depth: max 31 mm, Width: max 64 mm, Length: max 81 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1894.26.48.2

Research and responses

For an account of Somerville's collection from the Solomon Islands, see 'The H. B. T. Somerville Collection of Artefacts from the Solomon Islands in the Pitt Rivers Museum’, by Deborah Waite, in The General’s Gift: A Celebration of the Pitt Rivers Museum Centenary, 1884–1984 (JASO Occasional Papers, no. 3), edited by B. A. L. Cranstone and Steven Seidenberg (Oxford: JASO, 1884), pp. 41–52. (Copy in RDF: Collectors: Somerville.) [JC 24 2 2007]

For an account of Somerville's collecting in the Solomon Islands, see 'Notes and Queries, Science, and “Curios”: Lieutenant Boyle Somerville’s Ethnographic Collecting in the Solomon Islands, 1893–1895’, by Deborah Waite, in JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, Vol. XXXI, no. 3 (Michaelmas 2000), pp. 277-308. (Copy in RDF: Collectors: Somerville.) [JC 24 2 2007]

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