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]

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. 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
Person: Field collector Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville; Field collector HMS Penguin; PRM source Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville
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 100 mm, Depth 28 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1895.22.84
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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