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1894.26.19

Nose pendant of turtleshell, with two incised star-shapes. [El.B DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 08/10/2010]

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1894.26.19

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Collection type
Object
Description
Nose pendant of turtleshell, with two incised star-shapes. [El.B DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 08/10/2010]
Long description
Nose pendant of turtleshell, with two incised star-shapes. The lower edge is straight, and it tapers towards the top, where an oval cut-out has been made. In the lower half the turtleshell is split and slightly gaping. [El.B DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 08/10/2010]
Geographical reference
Solomon Islands
Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands
Uki Island
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1893
Date collected
1893
Acquisition information
Donated: 1894
Materials and processes
Material Turtleshell Reptile, Process Carved, Process Incised, Process Split
Dimensions
Length: max 36 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1894.26.19
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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