1896.33.55.6

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 - .5, .7 - .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

Person

Field collector Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville

PRM source Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1896

Date collected

By 1896

Acquisition information

Donated: 1896

Materials and processes

Material Plant Leaf

Dimensions

Width: max 69 mm, Length: max 125 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1896.33.55.6

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