Context (Found together / assemblage)
A wax cast of this object was found (1985) in an envelope. A handwritten note on the envelope reads: 'Cast in wax of a stone [sic] ornament found by Mr. Edmund Taylor at Indian River Bdos. the original given to the late Sir Graham Briggs, Bart. H.W. Feilden.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
E 1894.51[.1-2]: 'A small oval human mask of shell and a cast of it in wax; Human Face.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Exhibited: Archaeology Gallery, Clarke Hall, Case 70, 1984-2010.
Event Date 1/5/1984
Author: Annie McKay

Conservation (Museum Additions Removed)
CON.2017.3771 | Museum Additions Removed
Event Date 8/3/2017
Author: Ruth Watson

Context (Auction / Sale)
Register entry for 1894.47- 53 notes 'Briggs Collection/ Gibbons £2.0.0'

Carib stone tools collected by British planter and legislator Sir Graham Briggs (1833-1887) who owned the Farley Hill Estate on Barbados. His collections were purchased after his death from Charles Kenrick Gibbons (1856-1918). He was the son of Briggs' half sister, Anne Maxwell Hinds Jackman (1824–1902) and Lt Col. William Barton Gibbons (1892- 1872), J.P. Barbados, who were part of a family group compensated for the Sandford’s estate in Barbados following the abolition of slavery.

The National Museum of Ireland (1889), the British Museum (1889) and the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (1890 & 1915), and Glasgow Museum (1890) also acquired Carib tools from Gibbons. According to letters from Gibbons the material was exhibited in 1889, presumably to potential buyers, in London at the Baker St Bazaar, Lady Brigg's Room, Kings St Entrance.
Event Date 5/11/2020
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
A small oval human mask of shell.
Event Date 1/11/2021
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
A small oval shell engraved with a schematised human face on its dorsal surface. Resembles a miniature mask; possibly a zemís or three-pointer.
Event Date 4/6/2024
Author: Zahni Blumenthal