- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Jingle
- Long description
- 44 nuts threaded in pairs to plaited band. [MdeA 20/6/2007]
- Geographical reference
- Ngela and Havalo Districts, Florida Island south coast
- Person
- Field collector Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville
- Field collector HMS Penguin
- PRM source Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1894
- Date collected
- 1894
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1895
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Nut, Material String, Process Perforated, Process Plaited
- Dimensions
- Length: max 980 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1903.129.1
- Research and responses
For an account of Somerville's collection from the Solomon Islands, see 'The H. B. T. Somerville Collection of Artefacts from the Solomon Islands in the Pitt Rivers Museum’, by Deborah Waite, in The General’s Gift: A Celebration of the Pitt Rivers Museum Centenary, 1884–1984 (JASO Occasional Papers, no. 3), edited by B. A. L. Cranstone and Steven Seidenberg (Oxford: JASO, 1884), pp. 41–52. (Copy in RDF: Collectors: Somerville.) [JC 24 2 2007]
For an account of Somerville's collecting in the Solomon Islands, see 'Notes and Queries, Science, and “Curios”: Lieutenant Boyle Somerville’s Ethnographic Collecting in the Solomon Islands, 1893–1895’, by Deborah Waite, in JASO: Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, Vol. XXXI, no. 3 (Michaelmas 2000), pp. 277-308. (Copy in RDF: Collectors: Somerville.) [JC 24 2 2007]
Search terms: Music, Dance, Ornament, Musical Instrument, Leg Ornament, Arm Ornament, Rattle
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