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1895.22.41

Partly finished wooden tobacco pipe.

1895.22.41

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Collection type
Object
Description
Partly finished wooden tobacco pipe.
Long description
Unfinished wooden tobacco pipe. The general shape of the pipe has been carved, and work had begun on hollowing out the bowl, but the stem remains solid and unbored. The surface is rough and unsmoothed, showing clear tool marks. The pipe was taken from its maker while it was still in the process of being carved.
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1894
Date collected
1893 - 1894
Acquisition information
Donated: 1895
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions
Length: max 108 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1895.22.41
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]

Associated publications
Ref. Waite, D.B. 1984. 'The H.B.T. Somerville Collection of Artefacts from the Solomon Islands in the Pitt Rivers Museum'. In. B.A.L. Cranstone & S. Seidenberg (eds) The General's Gift. JASO Occasional Paper No. 3, Oxford. [LM 30/11/99]

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