Jew’s harp.

Collection type: Object
Description: Jew’s harp.
Geographical reference: Philippines
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Philippines; Northern Luzon [Nueva Viscaya]
Cultural groups: Ifugao
Person: Field collector William Arthur Wilfred Turnbull; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1913
Date collected: By 1913
Acquisition information: Bequeathed: 1939
Materials and processes: Material Bamboo Plant, Process Burnt
Dimensions: Length: max 100 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1938.34.509
Research and responses: In 1913 the Pitt Rivers Museum purchased objects from one Mrs Turnbull, who also sold material to the British Museum and the Horniman in 1914. It is thought that the field collector – actually her son – was William Arthur Wilfred (“Wilfrid”) Turnbull, an American lieutenant in the Philippine Constabulary in the first decade of the twentieth century, and who spent time among the Ilongot people, notably from 1909-1910 during the William Jones Affair. He died in 1944, possibly from myocarditis while interned in a Japanese camp. Information provided by Samantha Chen as part of her SOAS Education Co-creator Internship, during which she researched the Philippine collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum and added data to the SOAS Mapping Philippine Material Culture project (https://philippinestudies.uk/mapping/collections/show/275).

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