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1895.22.74

Neck pendant: a shell ring. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 20/9/2005]

1895.22.74

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Collection type
Object
Description
Neck pendant: a shell ring. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 20/9/2005]
Geographical reference
Solomon Islands
Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands
New Georgia North Coast
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1895
Date collected
1894 - 1895
Acquisition information
Donated: 1895
Materials and processes
Material Shell
Dimensions
Diameter: max 38 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1895.22.74
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]

The collector, Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville described some of these objects in his Anthropological Notebook (1893-5), which is unpublished and in the Royal Anthropological Institute Archives in London [ZM 15/05/2015]

Associated publications
For further information on Somerville see an article written by Deborah Waite in The General's Gift.

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