1965.1.8.2

Collection type

Object

Description

Charm against premature birth. Bundle of rags, bound by plaited cord. For the other in the pair see [1965.1.8.1].

Geographical reference

Congo, Democratic Republic of

Africa > Central Africa > Congo, Democratic Republic of

Upper Congo

Person

Field collector Richard Edward Dennett

PRM source Folk-Lore Society

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1895

Date collected

By 1895

Acquisition information

Donated: 1965

Materials and processes

Material Textile, Material String Plant, Process Bound, Process Recycled, Process Plaited

Dimensions

Length: max 170 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1965.1.8.2 Other numbers: D.1900.27 a, b Other PRM accession number: 1965.1.8b

Research and responses

This object was looked at by a group of students from Regent's Park College, Oxford on August 6 2015 [NC 12/08/2015]

Associated publications

For a consideration of the evidence for concluding that the Congo material in the Folklore Society donation (i.e. collection 1965.1) was collected by Richard Edward Dennett in the 1890s and given by him to the Folklore Society in or around 1895, see 'Hidden Charms: Writing On, Around, and About a Congo Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum', by Sally Ayres, in Journal of Museum Ethnography, no. 25 (2012), pp. 55-63. (Photocopy in RDF.) [JC 18 4 2013] 1965.1.8.2 illustrated in colour as Figure 101 on page 371 of 'Hidden Histories and Multiple Meanings: The Richard Dennett Collection at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter', by Sara Craig Ayres (Plymouth: Pymouth University, Ph.D. thesis, 2012). Caption (same page) reads: 'Figure 101. ‘Upper Congo. Sika pichi xetu. To prevent premature birth.’ Pitt Rivers Museum, accession number 1965.1.8. 2. Folklore Society Collection, accession number D.1900.27.b. Author’s photograph, reproduced courtesy of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.' (Thesis published online at http://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk:8080/pearl_xmlui/handle/10026.1/1039.) [JC 6 8 2013] For a consideration of the evidence for concluding that the Congo material in the Folklore Society donation (i.e. collection 1965.1) was collected by Richard Edward Dennett in the 1890s and given by him to the Folklore Society in or around 1895, see pages 12 (note 23), 29-30, 183 (note 185), 241-244, 308, of 'Hidden Histories and Multiple Meanings: The Richard Dennett Collection at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter', by Sara Craig Ayres (Plymouth: Pymouth University, Ph.D. thesis, 2012). (Printouts of relevant pages in RDF.) [JC 7 8 2013]

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