- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Axe with commercially-produced flat, triangular, socketed iron blade, stamped '2'. Haft of casuarina wood, bound with ?resin-coated plant-fibre string near the pointed butt. [LM 25/07/2007]
- 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 String, Material Iron Metal, Material Wood Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Material Resin Plant, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved, Process Bound, Process Stamped
- Dimensions
- Width: max 170 mm, Length: max 975 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1895.22.233
- 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 27 2 2003]
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]
1895.22.233
Axe with commercially-produced flat, triangular, socketed iron blade, stamped '2'. Haft of casuarina wood, bound with ?resin-coated plant-fibre string near the pointed butt. [LM 25/07/2007]
1895.22.233
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