Accession No

E 1915.23.4


Description

Trochus shell bracelet with incised decoration.


Place

Oceania; Melanesia; Solomon Islands


Period


Source

Drew Collection; Drew, Frederic Henry (Rev.) [collector]; Drew [donor]


Department

Anth


Reference Numbers

E 1915.23.4; MAA: Z 6272 B; BB 1915.81; AR 1915.294.4 [incorrect]; AR 1916.294


Cultural Affliation


Material

Shell


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (CMS Description)
Armlet of shell.
Event Date 6/11/2007
Author: maa


Context (CMS Context)
Two catalogue cards exist. Both of them only note the Blue Book accession numbers BB 1915.81 and Z 6272. The box list stores it under the accession number E 1915.294. T.Domin 6/11/2007' (Bio) Female donor: Mrs Drew
Event Date 6/11/2007
Author: maa


Context (CMS Context)
The Annual Report for 1916 notes for AR 1916.293-296 (with individual suffixes) was collected by the late Rev. F.H. Drew, M.A., Oxon, and presented by his mother, Mrs Drew. Drew was part of the Melanesia Mission, and the notice of his death recorded him as the 'missionary at the Solomon Islands [who] died on the way to Maravoru Hospital in 1915.' (See Northern Advocate , 13 March 1915, Page 5)

Not all of the Drew collection appears to have been entered into the 1915 Register, only the Blue Book (BB) and the Annual Report. Accession numbers have been entered variously using these two numbers with E prefixes.

Event Date 25/4/2012
Author: Rachel Hand


Description (CMS Description)
Trochus shell armlet, white in colour and decorated with a repeated pattern of incised horizontal triangles separated by two vertical incised lines with smaller lines either side of each triangle.
Event Date 12/6/2013
Author: maa


Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card 1 reads [handwritten in black ink:] 'E 1915.23,(4). MELANESIA. Solomon Islands. Florida. ['Z 6272' later addition in pencil]. Armlet. ['incised tortoise shell' later addition in black ball point] D. [underlined] Mrs Drew. R. 1915.294,(4).' [Red circular sticker top right of card.]

Catalogue card 2 reads [black typescript:] 'Z 6272, A-B. Solomon Islands Melanesia Pair of shell bracelets with outer rim nicely incised (19.15.80-81) ['Blue book no. R,no 1915.23.(3.4) see cards' inserted in pencil]. Drew Coll. [Red circular sticker top right of card.]

'Z 62771 B' handwritten on shell in black ink. White parchment label attached to object reads [handwritten in black ink:] 'Reg. 1915.8.1 Solomon Is. Drew Colln. Mrs Drew 1915'; Blue museum label attached to object reads [handwritten in black ink:] 'Armlet of shell, incised. Solomon Ils. Mrs Drew R.1915.294.4'.
Event Date 12/6/2013
Author: Heather Donoghue


Description (Labels & Markings)
'Z 6272 B' inscribed in black ink on the object.
Event Date 8/5/2017
Author: Lucie Carreau


Description (Labels & Markings)
A small green label attached to the object reads: 'Armlet of shell, / incised. / Solomon Ils. / Mrs Drew / R.1915.294.4'.
Event Date 8/5/2017
Author: Lucie Carreau


Description (Labels & Markings)
A small label glued to the object reads: 'Reg.1915.81 / Solomon Is. / Drew Colln / Mrs Drew 1915'.
Event Date 8/5/2017
Author: Lucie Carreau


FM:265828

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