IDNO

P.85295.MUS

Description

Documentary photograph of a wooden, three-legged headrest. A Museum label is just visible with the words ‘Melanesian Mission’ and the date 1912 just legible.
"Wooden headrest. This example has no decoration the part that supports the neck is crescent shaped with tapering ends. This is supported by two legs at one end and a single leg, at right angles to the others, at the other."
"Old label attached to catalogue card states that object came from the Torres Islands, 1912, through the Melanesian Mission." [from Object record MAA Object E 1912.22.27, JD 10/3/2010]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Europe British Isles; Vanuatu; United Kingdom; Torres Island; England; Cambridge; Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

?Museum Photographer

Collector / Expedition

Durrad, Walter John (Rev.) [Object Collector and Donor]

Date

Collection Name

Museum Objects and Galleries

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.85290 to P.85317 were found inside envelope now numbered C414/15/ which came from the box formerly numbered 162, now re-numbered C414/.

Although the archived notebook was found in envelope C414/15/ it appears to relate to all the prints found inside the box numbered C414/.

These are images of museum specimens.

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being "Oceania Polynesia; Oceania Melanesia; Europe British Isles; Fiji; Vanuatu; United Kingdom; Rotuma; Tikopia; Torres Island; England; Cambridge; Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology", but the photograph contains a label stating the objects are from Torres Island, Vanuatu and collected by the Melanesian Mission. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 10/31/2012]