IDNO

P.48979.ACH2

Description

“Cuttle fish Bone mould casting OBUASI. Ashanti, now in the Pitt Rivers Museum.
(1) Cast after: cooling showing ‘Pour & Gate’, R.P. Wild.
(2) Casts after treatment with lime juice, salt, sand & alum.
(3) Chased and burnished R.P. Wild”
[Wild’s? annotation, JD 20/10/2009]

Place

W Africa; Europe British Isles; Ghana; United Kingdom; Obuasi; England; Oxfordshire; Oxford; Pitt Rivers Museum

Cultural Affliation

Ashanti

Named Person

Photographer

Pitcher, Sydney

Collector / Expedition

Wild, Robert Powley [Object Collector]; Pitt Rivers Museum [Museum Collection]

Date

Collection Name

Unmounted Haddon Collection

Source

?Wild, Robert Powley?Greenwood, Ronald Charles (Captain, H.F.I.)

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

The print was found in envelope now marked C157/2/6/. This envelope was found in drawer 2 of the green cabinet. The entire cabinet was previously numbered as “batch 143” and is now re-numbered C157/ by the transcriber.

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being “Europe; England; Oxfordshire; Oxford; Pitt Rivers Museum”, but the photograph is of objects from Ghana. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 20/10/2009]