- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pottery sherd. Part of a 3-D ornamentation on a ceramic. The decoration resembles a human face with two eyes and a round mouth. [Fumiko Ohinata, Japanese Archaeology Project 1996-2000]
- Cultural groups
- Japanese
- Person
- Field collector William Gowland
- PRM source Anthropological Institute (later Royal Anthropological Institute)
- PRM source Royal Anthropological Institute
- Date / Period
- Date made: Circa 200-1 BC Archaeological period: Jōmon 縄文時代
- Date collected
- By 1892
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 02/1892, uncertain Loaned: 02/1892, uncertain
- Materials and processes
- Material Pottery, Process Perforated, Process Moulded
- Dimensions
- Length: max 39 mm, Depth: max 27 mm, Width: max 37 mm, Weight 22.8 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1892.61.6 Other numbers: JAC 421
- Research and responses
Possibly 1st or 2nd cents. B.C. cf. Gowland 'The dolmens.' Trans. and Proc. of the Jap. Soc. IV pt.III. [status of this info?]
The full reference for the article mentioned above is: Gowland, W. 1898. The Dolmens of Japan and their builders. Transactions and proceedings of the Japan Society, London vol. IV, part 3. [MN 11/02/2010]
Listed and described as JAC 421 on page 122 of the unpublished draft typescript 'The Japanese Archaeology Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford', by Fumiko Ohinata and Jeremy Coote (dated 2002): ‘Pottery ... Jomon pottery ... Japanese Jomon pottery is renowned for its antiquity as it is more than 12,000 years old ... Pottery from this period has a great variety of shapes and decoration, including the characteristic cord-marking (jomon), which has given its name to the whole period. It should be noted, however, that not all pottery of the Jomon period has cord mark decorations. The jomon pottery provides the terminology after which the period is named and not the criteria by which it is assigned ... JAC 421; Plate 58.5 / ?Hokkaido, Tsurumi / 3.9×3.7×2.7 cm; 22.8 g / Part of a 3-D ornamentation on a ceramic. The decoration resembles a human face with two eyes and a round mouth. The attached label and inscription reads, Tsurumi, Japanese mound. d.d. Anthrop. Inst. 1892. / This specimen is transferred from the Anthropological Institute, but the history is lost and it is placed nominally on deposit. There is evidence of old exhibition mount marks (which probably appeared before the object was donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum); PRM 1892.61.6.' Also illustrated in Plate 58.5. (Copy of typescript in RDF: Researchers: Ohinata and Coote). [MN 04/01/2010]
1892.61.6
Pottery sherd. Part of a 3-D ornamentation on a ceramic. The decoration resembles a human face with two eyes and a round mouth. [Fumiko Ohinata, Japanese Archaeology Project 1996-2000]
1892.61.6
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