Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in white ink on back of object: 'St Vincent. B.W.I. Briggs Coll. 94'
Event Date
Author: Alana Edgeworth

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Human head in burnt clay.'
Event Date 1894
Author: maa

Context (Other)
Item numbered by Mary Hill Harris 1986
Event Date 1985
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Exhibited: Leicester Museum Caribbean Exhibition 1986 to 1986
Event Date 1986
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Display)
Exhibited: Maudslay Gallery West Indies Case until 1986
Event Date 1986
Author: Lily Stancliffe

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 Brigg's 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

Conservation (Assessment Only)
CON.2022.5453 | Assessment Only
Event Date 12/10/2022
Author: Kirstie French

Context (References)
Avery, Victoria and Subryan, Jake. (2023). Black Atlantic: People Power Resistance. London: Bloomsbury. p. 48 (no. 33)
Event Date 2023
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Loan (Exhibition)
Fitzwilliam Museum (UCM), 25/7/2023 to 7/1/2024, Enslavement & Resistance: Cambridge & the Black Atlantic
Event Date 25/7/2023
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Head of a human figurine, possibly an adorno, made up of a fine red fabric. Sub-oval in shape with two incised semi-circles for eyes, a triangular nose with perforated holes for nostrils and a horizontal incision forming a mouth. Two protrusions at either side of the eyes forming ears.
Event Date 6/6/2024
Author: Alana Edgeworth