1886.1.1275

Collection type

Object

Description

Wooden footrest for a stilt. [CW [OPS Move] 31/5/2017]

Long description

Carved with tapering sides terminating in a point. The footrest is decoratively carved with a squatting human figure with hands resting on its stomach. The figure is wearing a sloping headdress, the back of which forms a curved section onto which the foot of the stilt wearer would be placed. The body of the figure and the headdress are decorated with concentric grooves and chevrons. [CW [OPS Move] 31/5/2017]

Geographical reference

French Polynesia (Overseas Collectivity of France)

Oceania > Polynesia > French Polynesia (Overseas Collectivity of France)

Marquesas Islands

Person

Field collector Unknown Collector

PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1878

Date collected

By 1878

Acquisition information

Transferred: 10/02/1886

Materials and processes

Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Stained

Dimensions

Length x Width: max 75 x 54 mm, Width: max 299 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1886.1.1275 Other numbers: 1198 ? 1197 107 108 109

Research and responses

* There is a note in the Ramsden collectors volume stating 'Retrospective numbers written in pencil down left hand column June 1975 E.S.G. Collated with A.M. but considerable problems encountered. All Ramsden seem to be in A.M.' Note that this exercise may have been the source of the confusion that occurred during Elizabeth Sandford Gunn's work on the Ashmolean collection with regard to numbers. In some instances, these numbers SEEM to have been used to number the objects (wrongly). [AP 16/7/99] This object is not mentioned in Collectors Miscellaneous XI Accession Book entry - Ramsden coll pages 223 - 255 [AP 21/7/99]

Search terms: Transport and Travel, Figure, Dance, Footrest, Dance Accessory