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1895.22.83

Large wooden ear plug with blue, white and black carved decoration of a flower surrounded by dolphins. [El.B DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 29/11/2010]

1895.22.83

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Collection type
Object
Description
Large wooden ear plug with blue, white and black carved decoration of a flower surrounded by dolphins. [El.B DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 29/11/2010]
Long description
Description taken from conservation card by Emma Hook - Large wooden ear plug with blue and black carved decoration on the front. Wooden disc. One side is carved and painted with blue, black and white pigment. (Emma Hook 29/01/96) [LKG 19/02/2009]
Geographical reference
Solomon Islands
Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands
New Georgia Ramada Island Nggerasi District
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1895
Date collected
By 1895
Acquisition information
Donated: 1895
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Painted
Dimensions
Diameter: max 102 mm, Depth 28 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1895.22.83
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: Ornament, Ear Ornament

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