Accession No

Z 11053


Description

bowl - Food bowl more rounded at one end that of the other with the frigate bird head and breast at the rounded end and inverted bird design at the other. Beauifully incised at each end but plain in the middle.


Place

Oceania; Melanesia; Solomon Islands


Period


Source

Gordon, Arthur Charles Hamilton [collector]; Lord.Stanmore


Department

Anth


Reference Numbers

Z 11053; O.VI.29.4.H. ['4' in superscript]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Wood; Shell


Local Term


Measurements

140mm x 178mm x 500mm


Events

Description (CMS Description)
On catalogue card for Z 11053: 'Food bowl more rounded at one end that of the other with the frigate bird head and breast at the rounded end and inverted bird design at the other. Beautifully incised at each end but plain in the middle'.
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: 'Z 11053' and 'O.VI.29.4.H' ['4' in superscript] inscribed in white ink on the side of the bowl. Old display label kept inside the bowl reads: 'Food bowl more rounded at one end that of the other with the frigate bird head and breast at the rounded end and inverted bird design at the other. Beautifully incised at each end but plain in the middle'.
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (CMS Context)
There was no donor associated to this object but the presence of a 'G' on the old number 'O.VI.29.4.G' on the object indicates that originally in the collection of Sir Arthur Gordon (Lord Stanmore)
Event Date 25/10/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau


Description (CMS Description)
Two small shell inlays inside the bowl.
Event Date 25/10/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau


FM:145969

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