Context (References)
Jacobs, Karen. 2004. Report: analysis of the collection assembled by A.F.R. Wollaston in Dutch New Guinea (1910- 13). Unpublished Crowther Beynon report on the MAA Wollaston Collection.
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Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Amendments / updates)
Katharina Haslwanter, (Pacific Presences Project) 2015.8.7
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Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
[From catalogue card:] 'Five split sticks for fire-making.'
Event Date 1/11/1998
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Amendments / updates)
The so-called Haddon & Layard numbers (H&L) , according to Karen Jacobs (2004: 2) are based on the original object numbers given by Wollaston in the field. Most of the objects in the MAA Wollaston collection have a number (written directly onto the object or on labels which are adhered to the objects) which are a combination of the Blue Book/Accession number (1914.231) with the running suffix from Wollaston field collection numbers, (1-257), which were also used in Haddon & Layard’s report. These numbers are now prefixed on the database as BBW (Blue Book with Wollaston suffix, e.g., e.g. 1914.231.1- 257) to differentiate them from the accession numbers.

(See Wollaston object labels in OA2/12/2.) These are pre-printed British Museum labels with handwritten annotations to which are adhered small green square labels with printed numbers. These are Wollaston’s field numbers and some of these two labels types are also found on MAA objects. Any missing objects from the number sequences of the Haddon and Layard numbers are probably those items which were returned to Wollaston.

It seems that some of these objects came back to the museum as the 1924 and 1925 collections (for example, the ‘Roll of tobacco coiled round a short stick’ shown as No 18 on Plate II of Haddon & Layard (1916: 10, 80 and 81), with the Wollaston field collection number ‘222’, reappears in the museum records as 1925.469).

Further information on the Wollaston collection can be found in:
Report on the Ethnographic Collection from the Utakwa river made by A.F.R. Wollaston. by A.C. Haddon and J. W. Layard, with a Note by A. von Hugel." The Report was printed as part of the British Ornithologists' Union, ‘Report on the Collections made by the British Ornithologists' Union Expedition and the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea 1910- 13’, 2 vols. Francis Edwards, London, 1916, Vol. II, part 19.

Jacobs, Karen. 2004. Report: analysis of the collection assembled by A.F.R. Wollaston in Dutch New Guinea (1910- 13). Unpublished Crowther Beynon report on the MAA Wollaston Collection.
Event Date 28/8/2015
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Display)
On objects 'C' and 'D' old wire display mount removed. On 'D' the wire was replaced by cotton ribbon because only a fragile rattan tie is holding two halves of the stick together.
Event Date 7/8/2015
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Labels & Markings)
Written in black ink: ’24.1163.B D.N.G’

Event Date 7/8/2015
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
1924.1163 B: Stick of wood, split down the middle, 4/5ths of its length. There is a stone pushed into the split to keep it open. One of the two arms of the stick is broken where the stone is, bark has fallen off both sides of the fracture. The broken are is secured to the other arm by a cotton ribbon. There are several friction marks on the outside of the split section, extending 13 cm of the stick’s length. Burn marks are on the inside of the split.
Event Date 7/8/2015
Author: Katrina Dring