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1887.1.382

Part of wooden headrest with the top of two legs remaining on one side.

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1887.1.382

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Collection type
Object
Description
Part of wooden headrest with the top of two legs remaining on one side.
Long description
Headdrest of wood, extensively damaged, although stable. Two legs are missing, along with most of one long edge. The remaining part of the curved top is cracked in two places along one short edge. The section of wood between the two cracks is free to move. [JU 07/06/2013]
Date / Period
Date made: Before 09/08/1769
Date collected
Between 13 April and 9 August 1769
Acquisition information
Loaned: 1886
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions
Length x Width 292 x 120 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1887.1.382
Associated publications
For an account of the collection of which this is a part, see 'An Interim Report on a Previously Unknown Collection from Cook's First Voyage: The Christ Church Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford', by Jeremy Coote, in Journal of Museum Ethnography, no. 16 (2004), pp. 111-21. This item is listed on page 116. (Copy of article in RDF: Biographies: Banks.) [JC 8 4 2004] This item was not loaned to the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby for the exhibition Curiosities from the Endeavour: A Forgotten Collection—Pacific Artefacts Given by Joseph Banks to Christ Church, Oxford after the First Voyage, from 6 March 1998 to 31 October 1998, but it was listed, and illustrated in colour as Figure 34, on page 22 of Curiosities from the Endeavour: A Forgotten Collection—Pacific Artefacts Given by Joseph Banks to Christ Church, Oxford after the First Voyage, by Jeremy Coote (Whitby: Captain Cook Memorial Museum, 2004). (Copies of exhibition leaflets, poster, catalogue, etc. in RDF: Biographies: Banks.) [JC 14 4 2004; JC 25 6 2004, JC 4 1 2012] See also 'Forgotten Treasures from Cook's First Voyage', by Jeremy Coote and Sophie Forgan, in Cook's Log, Vol. XXVII, no. 2 (April 2004), pp. 4-6. (Copy in RDF: Biographies: Banks.) [JC 25 6 2004] See also 'Curiosities from the Endeavour: A Forgotten Collection', by Jeremy Coote, The Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum Newsletter, no. 49 (July 2004), pp. 6-7. (Copy in RDF: Biographies: Banks.) [JC 1 9 2004] See also 'Uncovered: "Lost" Treasures from the South Seas', by Julie Webb, in Limited Edition [supplement to the Oxford Times], number 215 (December 2004), pp. 31-33. This object can be seen in its storage drawer in the colour illustration on page 31. (Copy in RDF: Biographies: Banks.) [JC 15 12 2004] For an account of the history of the collection of which this is part, see 'The Cook-Voyage Collections at Oxford, 1772–1775', by Jeremy Coote, in Jeremy Coote (ed.), Cook-Voyage Collections of 'Artificial Curiosities' in Britain and Ireland, 1771–2015 (MEG Occasional Paper No. 5), Oxford: Museum Ethnographers Group (2015), pp. 74–122. (Copy in RDF: Researchers: Jeremy Coote (Cook-Voyage Collections).) [JC 9 6 2016]

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