Context (CMS Context)
Found: Pajitan site
Event Date 16/11/1994
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (CMS Description)
Stone implement
Event Date 16/11/1994
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (CMS Context)
The source was originally given as G. Tweedie, but this is not based on the accessions register in which it is listed as 'Tweedie Gift'. As the excavator was Michael Wilmer Forbes Tweedie (1907-1993), it is presumed that the 'G' was an error or mistranscription. It has therefore been removed and Tweedie's full name added instead.
Event Date 16/10/2014
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Dr G.H.R. von Koenigswald visited Louis Clarke at the museum in February 1937. In a handwritten summary of letters he sent to Koenigswald, Clarke notes that 'Dr Koenigswald says he will send me as a personal gift a series from his very fine collection of implements from Java' and also generally lists what objects Clarke will send him in return (see Correspondence File for 1937). There is shipping paperwork stored with the artefacts showing that 'one case museum specimens' were sent from Singapore on 21 December 1937 to Miles Burkitt with several loose notes including 'Sent from MALAY ?site Patjitan south coast of Java' and '?sent by Tweedie'. It is therefore possible that this collection was in fact sent by Dr G.H.R. von Koenigswald, as had been agreed with Clarke earlier in the year, but since Clarke had now left the museum for the Fitzwilliam, Burkitt or T.T. Paterson did not know that von Koenigswald was the donor and instead believed it might be Tweedie, who had excavated with von Koenigswald. As a result of this uncertainty, Tweedie has been modfied in the Source as tentative and von Koenigswald has also been tentatively added.
Event Date 24/2/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
(Bib): von Koenigswald, G.H.R. 1936. 'Early Palaeolithic Stone Implements from Java'. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, 1. pp. 52-60
Event Date 24/2/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
(Bib): Tweedie, M.W.F. 1953. 'The stone age in Malaya.' Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 26.2 (162). p 3-90
Event Date 24/2/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
(Bib): Tweedie, MWF. 1942. 'Prehistory in Malaya.' The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1. pp. 1-13.
Event Date 24/2/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
The exact date of excavation is not currently known. It is not completely clear whether they are from the excavation carried out near Pajitan by Tweedie and Dr G.H.R. von Koenigswald in October 1935, described in 'Early Palaeolithic Stone Implements from Java'; they are not illustrated in the article.
Event Date 24/2/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Amendments / updates)
The spelling of the Pajitan culture (which was spelled 'Patjitan' on the catalogue card and in the Accession Register) is now more commonly spelled 'Pacitan', which has been added to the Period field.
Event Date 24/2/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)