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1894.26.67

Pump drill with stone whorl and metal file point.

1894.26.67

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Collection type
Object
Description
Pump drill with stone whorl and metal file point.
Long description
Pump drill with stone whorl and metal file point. Drill body is of wood. Drill cross piece is of wood and has twisted plant fibre rope attaching it to the main body of the drill.
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1893
Date collected
1893
Acquisition information
Donated: 1894
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Material Wood Plant, Material Metal, Material Plant Fibre, Process Carved, Process Ground
Dimensions
Length: max 900 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1894.26.67
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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