Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in pencil 'Barbados (Briggs) 1887'.
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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Scoop-like tool
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Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
According to the label, acquired in 1887. This is the year that Thomas Graham Briggs died, and his collection was dispersed.
Event Date 1887
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Auction / Sale)
See other Briggs Collection material accessioned as 1889.213, E 1890.1 (the latter probably re-accessioned as Z 2509- 28).
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 C. Kenrick Gibbons.
This is probably Charles Kenrick Gibbons (1856-1918), potentially the son of Lt Col. William Barton Gibbons (1892- 1872), J.P. Barbados, who was part of a family group was 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: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Shell adze made from the columella of a queen conch (Strombus gigas). Round cutting edge; rounded sides; tapering, curved butt, incorporating the siphonal canal. Ground surfaces, bevelled at the cutting edge on the bottom surface.
Event Date 5/6/2024
Author: Esther Laver