- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- String-work bag of round section with two carrying loops. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 17/1/2006]
- 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 Plant Fibre, Process Netted, Process Knotted
- Dimensions
- Width: max 300 mm, Length: max 240 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1895.22.181
- 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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