1895.22.77

Collection type

Object

Description

Neck ornament: a pearl shell ring. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 20/9/2005]

Geographical reference

Solomon Islands

Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands

New Georgia Munggeri

Person

Field collector Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville

Field collector HMS Penguin

PRM source Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1894

Date collected

1893 - 1894

Acquisition information

Donated: 1895

Materials and processes

Material Pearl Shell

Dimensions

Diameter: max 47 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1895.22.77

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]

The collector, Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville described some of these objects in his Anthropological Notebook (1893-5), which is unpublished and in the Royal Anthropological Institute Archives in London [ZM 15/05/2015]

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]

Search terms: Ornament, Neck Ornament