1894.26.4.2

Collection type

Object

Description

Fish hook of shell shank with turtleshell hook and string of beads. [MJD 20/04/2009]

Long description

Fish hook of sea snail shell shank with turtleshell hook and string of beads. The hook is tied to the shank with string. The five beads are red, white and blue. [MJD 20/04/2009]

Geographical reference

Solomon Islands

Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands

New Georgia Mbariki District

Person

Field collector Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville

Field collector HMS Penguin

PRM source Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1893

Date collected

1893

Acquisition information

Donated: 1894

Materials and processes

Material Snail-Shell Animal, Material Shell, Material Turtleshell Reptile, Material String, Material Bead, Process Carved, Process Bound, Process Tied, Process Twisted, Process Strung

Dimensions

Width: max 10 mm, Length: max 50 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1894.26.4.2

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]

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