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1887.1.686

Pot with resin glaze and incised decoration. Rounded bottom, with two corner peaks and middle spout. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 2/11/2004]

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1887.1.686

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Collection type
Object
Description
Pot with resin glaze and incised decoration. Rounded bottom, with two corner peaks and middle spout. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 2/11/2004]
Geographical reference
Fiji
Oceania > Melanesia > Fiji
Date / Period
Date made: Before 11/08/1874
Date collected
25 July to 11 August 1874
Acquisition information
Transferred: 1886
Materials and processes
Material Pottery, Material Resin Plant, Process Glazed
Dimensions
Length: max 262 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1887.1.686
Research and responses

In the George Rolleston archive (Ashmolean Museum) there is a letter dated Jan. 1 1874 from Moseley to Rolleston that makes reference to a Fijian pot: "p.s. A New Guinea drum similar to the one described in Jules Voyage of the FG or in the Voyage of the Beagle I forget which was got from a Murray Island craft at Cape York, Australia. This drum & a specimen of Fijian pottery for comparison with Anglo-Saxon ..? I have sent in a box to my Uncle at 31 Cumberland Terrace". A copy of the letter in the RDF. [AS 12/03/2012]

Search terms: Vessel, Pottery

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