| My wife Barbara spotted two of these ornaments ornaments when we visited the Pitt Rivers Museum in December 2005. We visited again in August 2009 and I took some bettter photographs than were displayed here before. I also photographed two more objects we did not spot before.
The Museum's online catalogue shows six items collected by C F Wood in 1873, presumably during the trip he wrote about in "Yachting Cruise in the South Seas", published in 1875. His collection was donated to the Museum by his widow Mrs Edith Wood in 1921.
For a gallery of photos, click here.
For full information on each item, go to the Pitt Rivers on-line database at
http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/databases.html
click on the in-text link "OBJECT & PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTIONS CATALOGUES,
select "Search the Objects Database", enter the accession number and click on "Perform Search". When the next page appears, click on it to get a lot more information.
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| Accession number |
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Catalogue Description |
Accession label
(visible in photo) |
| 1921.93.370 |
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Fish hook with shank |
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| 1921.93.371 |
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Shank of stalagmite for fishing hook |
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| 1921.93.372 |
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Necklet, 3 pendants of turtleshell |
Necklet of Shell disc beads with
turtle shell pendante
PANAPA
(OCEAN ID)
GILBERT IDS
C.F. Wood coll. 1873
dd. Mrs Wood 1921 |
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| 1921.93.373 |
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String necklet with disc-beads of red shell and four pendants of red shell |
Shell necklet
PANAPA
(OCEAN ID)
GILBERT IDS
C F Wood coll. 1873
dd. Mrs Wood 1921 |
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| 1921.93.374 |
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Necklet of two rows of red shell disc-beads differently strung, and with large and small red shell pendants.* |
None attached to item. |
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| 1921.93.375 |
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String of disc-beads of red shell, some circular, others shaped like 4-pointed stars |
Shell plate bracelet
PANAPA
(OCEAN ID)
GILBERT IDS
C. F.Wood coll. 1873
dd. Mrs Wood 1921 |
* The display label above this item is the wrong one - it refers to the item just visible at bottom right of the photo (from the Solomon Islands). The correct label is the one partly visible at bottom right. These labels have been swapped over by mistake. I have told the Museum and they promise to look into it.
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