1908.2.1.1

Collection type

Object

Description

Six glass flakes, for use as razors.

Long description

Description taken from Conservation Card by Katerina Kakouli 03/02/2000 - 8 flakes struck from glass bottle for use as a razor. 8 pieces of green transparent glass. Stored in two separate boxes. Larger box contains 6 pieces and smaller box contains the other 2. (Katerina Kakouli 03/02/2000) [LKG 14/04/2009]

Geographical reference

Antigua and Barbuda

Latin America and the Caribbean > Caribbean > Antigua and Barbuda

Person

Field collector James Arthur Harley

PRM source James Arthur Harley

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1908

Date collected

By 1908

Acquisition information

Donated: 1908

Materials and processes

Material Glass, Process Recycled, Process Struck

Dimensions

Diameter 10 mm each piece, approx

Object numbers

Accession number: 1908.2.1.1 Accession number: 1908.2.1.2 Accession number: 1908.2.1.3 Accession number: 1908.2.1.4 Accession number: 1908.2.1.5 Accession number: 1908.2.1.6

Research and responses

This collection was researched by Alice Gorman approximately 1994. See 'Gorman' researchers file for further information. [from Gorman 1993] 'Harley was born on Antigua, where his father was a landlord.'

Associated publications

Illustrated in colour as Figure 19.2 on page 407 of 'The Caribbean', by Dan Hicks and Jago Cooper, in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), pp. 401-408. Caption (same page): 'Figure 19.2 Glass bottle, from the base of which flakes have been struck, with 6 of these glass flakes. The flakes are recorded as having been razors (PRM Accession Numbers 1908.2.1-2). These objects were collected by James Arthur Harley from Antigua, and were donated to the PRM by him in 1908.'. [MJD 04/07/2014]

Search terms: Tool, Toilet, Technique, Razor, Flake, Toilet Article