1895.22.156

Collection type

Object

Description

Canoe prow ornament of a sitting figure with cupped hands and tilted head with a carved curved section from his head to seat. [LKG 10/06/2010]

Long description

Canoe prow ornament of a sitting figure with cupped hands and tilted head with a carved curved section from his head to seat. Painted with bright blue and dull orange red over the figure, and with a black resinous substance over the end of the bottom curved section, beneath the figure's seat. [LKG 10/06/2010]

Geographical reference

Solomon Islands

Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands

New Georgia Munggeri District

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 Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Material Resin Plant, Process Carved, Process Painted, Process Perforated, Process Incised

Dimensions

Depth: max 25 mm, Width: max 175 mm, Height: max 210 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1895.22.156

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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