Shell from which scrapers for eating pawpaw & coconut are made, with drawing in red to demonstrate shape of scraper as it would be [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 19/4/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Shell from which scrapers for eating pawpaw & coconut are made, with drawing in red to demonstrate shape of scraper as it would be [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 19/4/2005]
Geographical reference: Solomon Islands
Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands; New Georgia
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 Shell, Process Drawn
Dimensions: Length: max 225 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1894.26.10
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]

Search terms: Food and Drink, Animalia, Tool, Specimen, Shell, Scraper, Food Accessory