- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Leaf sample from a tree from which barkcloth is made. [AF [OPS move] 31/7/2017]
- Long description
- Leaf sample from which barkcloth is made. One of thirteen leaves with .1, .3 - .13, also two pieces of plant fibre [.14 - .15], all held within a box [.16] and glass-topped lid [.17]. [AF [OPS move] 31/7/2017]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1896
- Date collected
- By 1896
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1896
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Leaf
- Dimensions
- Width: max 66 mm, Length: max 102 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1896.33.55.2
- 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]
1896.33.55.2
Leaf sample from a tree from which barkcloth is made. [AF [OPS move] 31/7/2017]
1896.33.55.2
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