1929.12.5

Collection type

Object

Description

Ox-horn bound in red leather with interwoven bands of plant fibre, with leather carrying sling. [El.B 01/11/2007]

Geographical reference

Gambia

Africa > Western Africa > Gambia

Banjul [Bathurst]

Person

Field collector Wilfred Davidson Carrol

PRM source Marjorie T. Cam

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1929

Date collected

By 1929

Acquisition information

Donated: 12/5/1929

Materials and processes

Material Cattle Horn Animal, Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Plant Fibre, Process Bound, Process Woven

Dimensions

Length: max 340 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1929.12.5

Research and responses

This collection was listed under 'Accessions by Donation' in the Report of the Pitt-Rivers Museum, 1929, by Henry Balfour, as (with accession numbers inserted): 'Zulu assegai [1929.12.1], carved wooden Kaffir staff [1929.12.2]; native dress sword with European blade and decorated scabbard [1929.12.4], 2 leather-mounted ox-horns for parade [1929.12.4-.5], 2 knives with Sheffield blades and elaborate sheaths [[1929.12.6-.7], hair fly-whisk [[1929.12.8], Bathurst, Senegambia, W. Africa; flag-shaped mat-work fan [1929.12.9], ? Senegambia; 2 large sheets of decorated (? Fijian) bark cloth [1929.12.10-.11], Funafuti Island. Presented by Mrs. Cam.' [JC 21 1 2011]

According to an email from Julian Reid (Archivist, Merton College) to Jeremy Coote (PRM) dated 21 January 2011, Wilfred Davidson Carrol from Bathurst, Gambia was a student at Merton in the early 1920s. Also, George Rodney Scott was a Fellow of Merton (1874-1904), who died in 1929. I have therefore amended the names of the Field Collector and Other Owners. See biographical entries on Carrol and Scott for further details. [JC 21 1 2011]

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