Context (Other owners)
Miss Joyce Baker is the daughter of Reverend H.J. Baker who was a Methodist missionary to the Mashona tribe, in the early twentieth century, (1904-1919), in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
Event Date 1919
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Rocks and gold. Several rocks and stones in a square brown cardboard box.
Event Date 16/10/2008
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
These appear to be 22 quartz fragments of varying sizes and 1 piece of gold ?pyrite.
Event Date 12/4/2019
Author: rachel hand

Context (Amendments / updates)
The 'Methodist Who's Who' (n.d. ?1912/1913) notes Rev. H. J. Baker as Herbert John Baker, a pioneer missionary in Rhodesia, who worked at the Matabeleland Gold Mines, as Master of the Public School, Selukwe and then in Mashonaland.
The material was all identified as Mashona on entry to the Museum but may also have been been acquired in Matabeleland or Selukwe, now known as Shurugwi.
Event Date 15/4/2019
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Bag of 23 rock and mineral fragments, including one large fragment of granite, 20 fragments of quartz, one fragment possibly of calcite, and one fragment of grey stone. Five quartz fragments have traces of gold ore.
Event Date 2/2/2023
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Amendments / updates)
The cardboard box noted in the 2008 description for this object is not mentioned in the accession register entry for 2005.668. The box has therefore been disposed of and removed from the object description.
Event Date 2/2/2023
Author: Lizzy Peneycad