- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Fishing bow, made of palm wood. [ASh [OPS move] 14/8/2017]
- Long description
- Fishing bow, made of palm wood, that tapers towards the tips of the bow which have been shouldered and nocked. There are thin, cylindrical projections at either ends of the bow. No string attached. [ASh [OPS move] 11/8/2017]
- 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, Process Carved, Process Notched
- Dimensions
- Length: max 1651 mm, Depth: max 13 mm, Width: max 33 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1895.22.202
- 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