Context (CMS Context)
No record found in database. This record made from catalogue cards, observation of objects and report written by Rhys Richards on 8/7/2004.
This card makes no mention of the description, condition, size or location for E or G. There are two catalogue cards for these objects, attached by a staple, and on the back of the second card is a small photograph of Z 260 B.
From the collection of (bio) Dr W.H.R. Rivers.
Event Date 6/9/2004
Author: rachel hand

Description (CMS Description)
Catalogue card reads: Eight specimens of bark cloth. A: Blue/green design. C: plain white D: plain brown F: Plain brown. H: Blue dyed. B: tapering piece - blue design on a wider part, plain white on narrowerhalf with plain blue line down centre - condition fair.
'A: ''This cloth, or part of cloth, has no travel line, so may not represent the usual fishing well off-shore, only fishing in-shore. The top panel shows nine bonito tails for dead fish ready to be taken home. The next panel shows frigate birds milling in a frenzy among live bonito. The third panel shows reef fish, and as usual the bottom panel shows hills (though curiously here the triangles are both inverted and unfilled)."
'B: "A Bonito Schooling Frenzy." Rueben Lilo said this dense "busy" mix of birds and fish close in shore also reflects the traditional importance of bonito fishing. He said that in his grandfather's time, fishermen do not mind spend a whole morning still on shore, calling and calling to the gods, "miming" custom words and prayers, making sacrifices and even casting small custom shell monies into the sea, in order to get the gods to entice the frigate birds and bonito to come closer to the shore. Rueben remembered that when he was a small boy, (before 1960,) his uncle still called the bonito fish in the time honoured way. Towards the end of the day his uncle or his grandfather announced that the fish would be found where he was when the men arrived there, the fishermen went out quickly and always found immediately a big school of bonito had arrived driven by the frantic preying of the diving birds. The fishermen returned home in the late dusk, well laiden, but always the first fish caught was used as a sacrifice to the gods. Rueben said the place on shore from which to call had to be chosen very carefully, not to use an "eraru" or tambu place. He stressed that the calls were not directly to the fish, but rather to the gods. He was sure that the last traditional bonito calling ceased during the 1960s. Rhys Richards 8 July 2004. Transcribed by F. Veys 7/9/2004'
Event Date 6/9/2004
Author: rachel hand

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card 1 reads [handwritten black ink:] 'Z 260. a-h. Mandegusu. (Eddystone Id) Eight specimens of bark cloth. Rivers' Colln.'; [later addition handwritten in blue ball point:] 'SOLOMONS'; [later addition handwritten on reverse of card in black ball point:]
'Z 260 A [red circular sticker] 0.57m x 0.53m (green/blue design)
Z 260 C [red circular sticker] 0.60m x 1.24m (plain white)
Z 260 D [red circular sticker] 0.65m x 1.46m (plain brown)
Z 260 F 0.76m x 1.52m (Plain Brown)
Z 260 H [red circular sticker] 0.52m x 1.14m (Blue dyed)
Z 260 B [red circular sticker] 2.76m long. tapering piece - blue design on wider part, plain white on narrower half with plain blue line down centre – CONDITION FAIR'. [Museum label attached to front of catalogue card handwritten in pencil: 'Z 260 B' with following handwritten vertically in pencil [?]2 00/27 80 14'.]

Catalogue card 2 reads [handwritten in black ball point:]
'[Z] 260 A' [museum label attached to card underneath '260 A' handwritten in faded black ink: 'Ngg[?]oru Mandi ghusu'];

[handwritten in black ball point:] '[Z] 260 C' [museum label attached to card underneath '260 C' handwritten in faded black ink: 'Elava Mandi ghusu';

[handwritten in black ball point:] '[Z] 260 B' [museum label attached to card underneath '260 B' handwritten in faded black ink: 'Popoghu Mandighusu';

[handwritten in black ball point:] '[Z] 260 D' [museum label attached to card underneath '260 D' handwritten in faded black ink: 'Raghana Mandighusu H p 402';

[handwritten in black ball point:] '[Z] 260 H' [museum label attached to card underneath '260 H' handwritten in faded black ink: 'Nggo[?]ru Mandi ghusu'];

[handwritten in black ball point on reverse of card:] 'B.' [black and white photograph attached to reverse of catalogue card.]
Event Date 9/6/2013
Author: rachel hand