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1896.33.55.3

Leaf sample from a tree from which barkcloth is made. [AF [OPS move] 31/7/2017]

1896.33.55.3

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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 - .2, .4 - .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]
Geographical reference
Solomon Islands
Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands
New Georgia
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1896
Date collected
By 1896
Acquisition information
Donated: 1896
Materials and processes
Material Plant Leaf
Dimensions
Width: max 56 mm, Length: max 109 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1896.33.55.3
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]

Search terms: Barkcloth, Specimen, Plant

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