1895.22.201

Collection type

Object

Description

Fishing bow, made from wood. [ASh [OPS move] 8/8/2017]

Long description

Fishing bow, made from wood. The bow is convex in section and tapers towards each tip. Attached to the tips is the twisted plant fibre bowstring. [ASh [OPS move] 8/8/2017]

Geographical reference

Solomon Islands

Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands

New Georgia

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 Plant Fibre, Process Carved, Process Twisted

Dimensions

Depth: max 14 mm, Length: max 1619 mm, Width: max 33 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1895.22.201

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]

Search terms: Archery Weapon, Fishing, Bow, Fishing Accessory