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1894.26.27

Dancing ornament; section of bound red, white & blue cloth with small white feathers tied to one end, long palm leaf strips (decorated with red pigment & tipped with white feathers) hanging from the other end. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 24/11/2005]

1894.26.27

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Collection type
Object
Description
Dancing ornament; section of bound red, white & blue cloth with small white feathers tied to one end, long palm leaf strips (decorated with red pigment & tipped with white feathers) hanging from the other end. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 24/11/2005]
Geographical reference
Solomon Islands
Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands
New Georgia
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1893
Date collected
1893
Acquisition information
Donated: 1894
Materials and processes
Material Palm Leaf Plant, Material Pigment, Material Bird Feather, Material Textile, Process Tied, Process Dyed
Dimensions
Diameter: max 570 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1894.26.27 Other numbers: 7
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: Ornament, Dance, Arm Ornament