Context (CMS Context)
Donor: Lady Violet Beaumont. From San Christoval, 1904
'Old handwritten paper label, damaged, adhered to bowl reads " [San] Christoval [Sol]omon Ids 1904 Food bowl sent me by Chas.M. Woodfor[d] [1]904"
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Card notes: Large food bowl with pearl shell inlay. Frigate bird head holding a fish; projecting wings; forked tail. Compare Z 11068
Event Date 1948
Author: maa

Context (Display)
On display in the Maudslay Hall, freestanding, on the centra pacific plinth, from 1990 onwards
Event Date 1990
Author: rachel hand

Context (References)
'In 1948 Lady Violet Beaumont donated fifteen Solomon Islands objects to the museum (MAA 1948.2625-2634)These had been the property of her brother, F.J. Wootton-Isaacson who visited the Solomons in 1903 (Waite (2008:83) names him as a collector for the BM). From these objects I have identified five which were collected by
Woodford and sent by him to Wootton-Isaacson. These are a bow from Bougainville (MAA 1948.2625), a food bowl from Makira (MAA 1948.2626) and a model tomoko with two paddles from Roviana (MAA 1948.2628a-c). It is possible that some other objects within this collection were collected by Woodford, but no direct association has yet been established. Wootton-Isaacson would doubtless have collected objects whilst visiting the Solomons, and eight photographs taken by him during the 1903 visit are held in the MAA photographic archive [51]'

Plate 34: The scale model of a tomoko which was made at Roviana for Frederick Wootton-Isaacson and
sent to him by Woodford. Woodford stated that this model was a faithful representation of the tomoko
captured by him at during a raid on Nusarua, in the Roviana Lagoon in 1900, and used by [Arthur] Mahaffy.
(MAA 1948.2628a-c)

Note 51 1 MAA photographic collection (P.70199.ACH2 , P.70200.ACH2 , P.70201.ACH2 , P.70202.ACH2 ,
P.70203.ACH2 , P.70204.ACH2 , P.70205.ACH2 , P.70206.ACH2)

O'Brien, Aoife (2011) Collecting the Solomon Islands: Colonial encounters & Indigenous experiences in the Solomon Island collections of Charles Morris Woodford and Arthur Mahaffy (1886-1915). Doctoral thesis, University of East Anglia
Event Date 2011
Author: rachel hand

Description (Labels & Markings)
'Old handwritten paper label, damaged, adhered to bowl reads " [San] Christoval [Sol]omon Ids 1904 Food bowl sent me by Chas.M. Woodfor[d] [1]904"

This may be the bowl deposited in 1908 by Frederick Wootton Isaccson
Event Date 4/7/2017
Author: rachel hand