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1910.42.2.10

Animal rib fragment. [RH [OPS Move] 12/5/2017]

1910.42.2.10

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Collection type
Object
Description
Animal rib fragment. [RH [OPS Move] 12/5/2017]
Long description
Animal rib fragment. One of 27 animal bone fragments, teeth, and shells from a midden on Bruni Island, Tasmania. These were found together together in a wooden box during the OPS Project Move. [RH [OPS Move] 12/5/2017]
Geographical reference
Australia
Oceania > Australia and New Zealand > Australia
Tasmania Bruny Island
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Edward Burnett Tylor
Date
Date collected
By 1910
Acquisition information
Donated: 1910
Materials and processes
Material Animal Bone
Dimensions
Depth: max 15 mm, Width: max 18 mm, Length: max 84 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1910.42.2.10
Research and responses

In Tylor's introduction to H. Ling Roth 18999 'The Aborigines of Tasmania' 2nd edition '...Some of the best of these [stone tool collections from Tasmania in the Pitt Rivers Museum] wer 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]

Associated publications
Referred to on page 540 of 'Australia and Oceania', by Dan Hicks, in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), pp. 525-553. Hicks writes: ‘A donation by Tylor in December 1910 comprised an estimated 317 stone tools, collected by Joseph Paxton Moir and ‘Mr Green, NW Coast’, and are recorded as being from ‘McAuliffes’ (1910.42.1). A second very large unquantified collection of animal bone and stone tools, ‘dug up in a midden on Bruni [Bruny] Island’, was donated at the same time, and is currently estimated as comprising c. 100 objects (1910.42.2)..'. [MJD (Verve) 11/1/2016]

Search terms: Animalia, Specimen, Animal Part, Bone

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