1886.1.553.2

Collection type

Object

Description

Arrow head, made from iron metal. For the associated objects see 1886.1.553 .1 - .5 [SB [OPS move] 3/10/2017]

Geographical reference

Western Africa

Africa > Western Africa

Person

Field collector Unknown Collector

PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1656

Date collected

By 1656?

Acquisition information

Transferred: 01/12/1886

Materials and processes

Material Iron Metal

Dimensions

Depth: max 4 mm, Width: max 12 mm, Length: max 146 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1886.1.553.2

Associated publications

Possibly listed on page 45 of Museum Tradescantianum, Or a Collection of Rarities Preserved at South-Lambeth neer London, by John Tradescant (London, 1656), where there is an entry reading: 'Quivers 12, from India, China, Canada, Virgina, Ginny, Turkey, Persia'. [JC 19 9 2013] Listed (1886.1.553.1-.3) as entry 366 on page 341 of 'Ethnological Specimens in the Pitt Rivers Museum attributed to the Tradescant Collection', by Lynne Williamson, in Tradescant's Rarities: Essays on the Foundation of the Ashmolean Museum 1683 with a Catalogue of the Surviving Early Collections, ed. Arthur MacGregor (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983), pp. 338−45. The entry takes the form of an edited transcription of the entry in the 'List of Anthropological objects transferred from the Ashmolean to the Pitt Rivers' museum 1886' (for which, see under ‘Primary Documentation’), with metric dimensions: ‘366. QUIVER AND ARROWS (1886 no. 553). “A quiver and two iron heads of arrows; of nearly the same pattern as the preceding [i.e. 1886.1.552], except that there is no so much of the goat’s hide seen below the perforated brown leather … Length is 0.57 m, diameter 50 mm. Length of iron heads 160 mm and 137 mm.” 1656. p. 45: Quivers 12, from India, China, Canada, Virgina, Ginny, Turkey, Persia.' [JC 17 9 2013]

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