- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone ornament or fragment
- Long description
- Triangular piece of mottled stone, ?unfinished ornament. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 5/12/2005]
- Geographical reference
- St Kitts Ponds Estate site to the north of the sugar factory pier
- Cultural groups
- Arawak
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1930?, uncertain
- Date collected
- 1908 - 1930
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1966
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone
- Dimensions
- Length: max 35 mm, Width: max 51 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1966.29.43
- Research and responses
Lennox Honeychurch (former student at the Pitt Rivers Museum), discusses similiarly shaped pieces of stone which were used by early Carib and Arawak settlers of the region as physical representations of the islands on three dimensional maps in his doctoral thesis. These stone objects were sized and shaped to represent each specific island in a group, and then set either on mats or connected using a series of small wood pieces representing trade winds. Dr. Honeychurch's thesis The Carribean People can be found in the Bodelien bookstacks. [MOB 2/10/2000]
Probably spirit-image, ZEMI. (See Olsen, DOC). LM.
- Associated publications
- Reference: Finding the Forgotten: Locating Transatlantic Slavery in The Pitt Rivers Museum Collection, Main author: Jane Webster, 2025, Page: 123
Search terms: Ornament, Religion, Tool, Religious Object