1886.1.516.1

Collection type

Object

Description

Bow with plaited collars at both ends. [El.B 20/2/2007]

Geographical reference

Mozambique

Africa > Eastern Africa > Mozambique

Person

Field collector G.M. Nelson

PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Date / Period

Date made: On or before 1825?, uncertain

Date collected

?On or before 1825

Acquisition information

Transferred: 08/03/1886

Materials and processes

Material Plant Fibre, Material Animal Hide Skin, Material Wood Plant, Material Animal Rawhide Skin, Process Basketry, Process Bound, Process Plaited, Process Twisted

Dimensions

Length: max 1370 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1886.1.516.1 Other numbers: 91

Research and responses

This bow is one of a number of objects borrowed from the Ashmolean Museum by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) for use as props in his photography. It can be seen in a photograph of Ella Monier-Williams taken by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) on 9 July 1866. Two prints of this photograph survive: one is in the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum (2012.107.1), the other in a Monier-Williams family photograph album held in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (MS MS Photogr. d 21; no. 73). See ‘“Dressed as a New Zealander”, or an Ethnographic Mischmasch? Notes and Reflections on Two Photographs by Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)’, by Jeremy Coote and Christopher Morton, in Journal of Museum Ethnography, no. 28, pp. 150–72. [FB 06/08/2014; JC 13 2 2015, 25 6 2015]

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