IDNO

P.9677.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Bull-roarers from Schmeltz."

Place

Oceania Melanesia; SE Asia; Europe; Indonesia; Holland; Papua District [Dutch New Guinea]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort

Date

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being “Europe; Germany; West Germany; Schmeltz”, but research shows that “fr. Schmeltz” probably refers to J.D.E. Schmeltz and his ethnographic research on west and north-coast Dutch New Guinea. See following biographical and bibliographical references. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 28/10/2008]

Biographical Information: Dr J. D. E. Schmeltz (1839 - 1909) was the director of the State Museum of Ethnography at Leyden, Holland. Schmeltz was born in Hamburg and began his work in the Godeffroy Museum in Hamburg, until becoming the assistant to Dr Serrurier in Leyden in 1884. He was the founder and editor of the Internationales Archiv ffur Ethnographie. [Source: Alexander F. Chamberlain, D. I. Bushnell, Jr., Shridhar V. Ketkar and P. G. Gates, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1909), pp. 318-328. Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association, JD 29/10/2008]

Bibliographical Reference: Clercq, Frederik Sigismund A. de., Ethnographische beschrijving van de west- en noord-kust van Nederlandsch Nieuw-Guinea, door F.S.A. de Clercq met medewerking van J.D.E. Schmeltz. (Leiden 1893). [JD 29/10/2008]

Bibliographical Reference: Kubary, Jan Stanis, Ethnographische Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Karolinen Archipels, von J.S. Kubary unter Mitwirkung von J.D.E. Schmeltz. (Leiden 1889-95). [JD 29/10/2008]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 28/10/2008]