Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for Z 39515: 'Soapstone fish-shaped amulet'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Amulet in the shape of a fish.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Displayed in archaeology gallery, Clarke Hall, case 70, 1 May 1984 to 2010.
Event Date 1/5/1984
Author: Annie McKay

Context (Analysis)
Conceivably this is the same object as E 1894.52; Label says " St. Vincent, W.I. Briggs coll. 94"
Event Date 11/11/1988
Author: maa

Conservation (Museum Additions Removed)
CON.2017.3777 | Museum Additions Removed
Event Date 8/3/2017
Author: Ruth Watson

Context (Amendments / updates)
Accession number previously stated 'Z 39515; ?E 1894.52'. On sight of object this has now been changed to just Z 39515, it is in the shape of a fish and has 'Z 39515' marked twice on it. ?E 1894.52 has since been moved to MAA Nos. When looking at the E 1894.52 record, it is described as 'birdlike ornament of stalagmite'.
Information seen in the Curatorial notes suggests that these might be the same object. On sight of object it is possible that this could also be a 'birdlike' ornament. Due to the object being marked with Z 39515, it is assumed that this is the correct idno however there is still confusion as to whether Z 39515 is in fact E 1894.52, as a result the date idno remains on the record. Further research will need to be done to ascertain whether these are the same object, or two separate ones.
Event Date 31/7/2018
Author: Annie McKay

Context (Auction / Sale)
See other Briggs Collection material accessioned as 1889.213, E 1890.1 (the latter probably re-accessioned as Z 2509- 28).

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.2022.5455 | 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. 34)
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