- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Canoe prow ornament: curved end decorated with tongued figure and relief decoration of a man and a mythical beast. [LKG 10/06/2010]
- Long description
- Canoe prow ornament: curved end decorated with the shape of a tongued figure and relief decoration of a man and a mythical beast; partly painted black; woman figure at top broken off. The prow ornament has been painted with black pigment. [LKG 10/06/2010]
- Geographical reference
- 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, Process Carved, Process Painted, Process Perforated, Process Nailed
- Dimensions
- Height: max 29 mm, Width: max 202 mm, Length: max 409 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1895.22.158
- 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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