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prm-object-94142
catalogue
Objects
94,142
1940.0007.187.1
1940.7.187.1
Object
yes
4
Three small stones [.1 - .3], fertility charms, stored in a Wellcome quinine bottle [.4].
Ethnography
Africa -> Central Africa -> Angola, Southern Angola Huila province Tributary of Cunene River near Qué between Chicomba & Quipungo
Material: Stone, Process: Recycled
Date made: Before 1936
Donated: 1940
On display
ovana
Accession number: 1940.7.187.1 Accession number: 1940.7.187.2 Accession number: 1940.7.187.3 Accession number: 1940.7.187.4 Other numbers: 37.251
2023-01-08T21:01:21.988
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[ { "class": "Religion" }, { "class": "Ornament" }, { "class": "Children and Childcare" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Amulet", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "August 1937", "sort": "1" } ]
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[ { "from": "1936", "period": null, "to": null } ]
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prm
Object
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1940.7.187.1
Three small stones [.1 - .3], fertility charms, stored in a Wellcome quinine bottle [.4].
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Not supported with pagination yet
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prm-object-94090
catalogue
Objects
94,090
1940.0007.135
1940.7.135
Object
yes
1
Birdlime (to trap birds) in a small glass bottle with a metal lid. [SM 29/11/2007]
Ethnography
Africa -> Central Africa -> Angola, Southern Angola near Namacunde
Material: Plant Fruit, Material: Glass, Material: Metal, Process: Moulded, Process: Stamped
Date made: Before 1936
Donated: 1940
null
null
Accession number: 1940.7.135 Other numbers: 37.1072
2023-03-31T04:59:01.278
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[ { "certainty": null, "culturalGroup": "Kwanyama", "culturalGroupHierarchy": " -> Kwanyama", "id": "30087", "sort": "1" } ]
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[ { "class": "Hunting" }, { "class": "Specimen" }, { "class": "Plant" } ]
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[ { "certainty": null, "date": "1936 - 1937", "sort": "1" } ]
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[ { "from": "1936", "period": null, "to": null } ]
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prm
Object
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1940.7.135
Birdlime (to trap birds) in a small glass bottle with a metal lid. [SM 29/11/2007]
false
Birdlime (to trap birds) in a small glass bottle with a metal lid. The bottle lid has "WELLCOME CHEMICAL WORKS OVER 270 HIGHEST AWARDS" stamped onto it. The bottle has a label for sugar coated Cascara Sagrada dry extract. "TRADE MARK 'TABLOID' BRAND Cascara Sagrada (dry extract) COMPRESSED. GR. 2 (0.13 gm.) DIRECTION....
-> Kwanyama
Length: max 56 mm bottle, Width: max 37 mm bottle
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prm-object-25920
catalogue
Objects
25,920
1953.0009.9
1953.9.9
Object
yes
1
Spoon of mountain goat horn, all in one piece, the handle carved with totemic figures. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 9/3/2006]
Ethnography
Northern America -> North America -> Canada, Northern America -> North America -> United States of America
Material: Goat Horn Animal, Process: Carved
Date made: Before 1952
Acquired: 1952 Acquired: 09/1953
On display
null
Accession number: 1953.9.9 Other numbers: Wellcome No. 20227.
2023-03-31T06:28:28.608
[ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sort": "11" } ]
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[ { "certainty": null, "culturalGroup": "Native American", "culturalGroupHierarchy": " -> Native American", "id": "26031", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Goat Horn Animal", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": null, "processIndex": "Carved", "type": "Process" } ]
[ { "id": "55074", "identifier": "PRM_RS316505_1953.0009.9.jpg", "irn": "316505", "isPublished": "Yes", "mimeType": "image", "path": "", "ranking": "5", "resourceSpaceId": "316505", "rights": null } ]
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[ { "class": "Food and Drink" }, { "class": "Figure" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Spoon", "sort": "1" }, { "keyword": "Figure", "sort": "2" }, { "keyword": "Food Accessory", "sort": "3" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By 1952", "sort": "1" } ]
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[ { "from": "1952", "period": null, "to": null } ]
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[ { "id": "88022" }, { "id": "88023" } ]
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Object
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1953.9.9
Spoon of mountain goat horn, all in one piece, the handle carved with totemic figures. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 9/3/2006]
false
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-> Native American
Width: max 57 mm, Length: max 183 mm
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prm-object-242739
catalogue
Objects
242,739
1985.0052.576
1985.52.576
Object
yes
1
Amulet, a glass vial of liquid mercury. [RB 31/08/2012]
Ethnography
Europe -> Western Europe -> France, Haute-Vienne Rochechouart
Material: Mercury Metal
Date made: Before 1931
Transferred: 1985
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Accession number: 1985.52.576 Other numbers: 1096 R 14243/ 1936
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[ { "certainty": "uncertain", "id": "9375", "primaryName": "M. Masfrand", "role": "Field collector", "sort": "11" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "102" }, { "certainty": null, ...
[ { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": "Europe > Western Europe > France", "region": null, "sort": "1" }, { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": null, "region": "Haute-Vienne Rochechouart", "sort": "50" } ]
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[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Mercury Metal", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" } ]
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[ { "certaintyBottomField": null, "dateText": "Transferred 1985", "from": "1985", "fromYear": "1985", "preview": "Transferred: 1985", "sort": "1", "toYear": "1985", "type": "Transferred" } ]
[ { "class": "Religion" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Amulet", "sort": null } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By 1931", "sort": "1" } ]
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[ { "from": "1931", "period": null, "to": null } ]
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prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": "uncertain", "id": "9375", "primaryName": "M. Masfrand", "role": "Field collector", "sort": "11" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort...
1985.52.576
Amulet, a glass vial of liquid mercury. [RB 31/08/2012]
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Not supported with pagination yet
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Catalogues, copies of index cards and related documents in Wellcome filing cabinet. [MdeA 10/05/2012]
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prm-object-24905
catalogue
Objects
24,905
1951.0006.56
1951.6.56
Object
yes
1
Square wooden comb with the top carved as a bird's face. [CAK 26/05/2009]
Ethnography
Northern America -> North America -> Canada, British Columbia Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands) NW Coast
Material: Wood Plant, Process: Carved
Date made: Before 1951
Donated: 1951
On display
null
Accession number: 1951.6.56 Other numbers: Wellcome No. R10473/1936.
2023-03-31T06:08:53.377
[ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sort": "11" } ]
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[ { "certainty": "uncertain", "culturalGroup": "Haida", "culturalGroupHierarchy": "Northwest Coast -> Haida", "id": "26377", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Wood Plant", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": null, "processIndex": "Carved", "type": "Process" } ]
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[ { "class": "Toilet" }, { "class": "Figure" }, { "class": "Ornament" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Comb", "sort": "1" }, { "keyword": "Bird Figure", "sort": "2" }, { "keyword": "Toilet Article", "sort": "3" }, { "keyword": "Hair Ornament", "sort": "4" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By 1951", "sort": "1" } ]
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[ { "from": "1951", "period": null, "to": null } ]
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null
[ { "id": "88022" }, { "id": "88023" } ]
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prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sor...
1951.6.56
Square wooden comb with the top carved as a bird's face. [CAK 26/05/2009]
false
Square wooden comb with the top carved as a bird's face. Carved from a single piece of wood, the reverse of the comb is flat and smooth. The front of the comb is carved into a peak just above its midpoint. The peak forms the bird's beak. Shallow outlines of eyebrows, eyes and beak/mouth are carved on the top third of t...
Northwest Coast -> Haida, uncertain
Width: max 85 mm, Length: max 121 mm
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The following information comes from Haida delegates who worked with the museum’s collection in September 2009 as part of the project “Haida Material Culture in British Museums: Generating New Forms of Knowledge”: This comb was viewed alongside items of personal adornment on Friday Sept 11, 2009. Kwiaahwah Jones belie...
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prm-object-241413
catalogue
Objects
241,413
2012.0021.14
2012.21.14
Object
yes
1
Glass bottle containing tablets and cotton wool, part of a medical kit [See 2012.21.2 - .53]. [FB 26/03/2012]
Ethnography
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland England London
Material: Metal, Material: Ink, Material: Paper Plant, Material: Glass, Material: Cottonwool Fibre Plant, Process: Printed, Process: Glued, Process: Inscribed, Process: Moulded, Process: Stamped
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Donated: 02/02/2012
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Accession number: 2012.21.14
2026-04-01T15:57:33.312
[ { "certainty": null, "id": "2618", "primaryName": "Charles R.W. Lyne", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "2655", "primaryName": "Charles Wadham Lyne", "role": "Field collector", "sort": "11" } ]
[ { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": "Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", "region": null, "sort": "1" }, { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": null, "region": "England London", "sort": "50" } ]
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[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Metal", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Ink", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Paper Plant", "processIndex": null, "type...
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[ { "certaintyBottomField": null, "dateText": "Donated 02/02/2012", "from": "02/02/2012", "fromYear": "2012", "preview": "Donated: 02/02/2012", "sort": "1", "toYear": "2012", "type": "Donated" } ]
[ { "class": "Medicine" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Medicine", "sort": "1" }, { "keyword": "Bottle", "sort": "2" }, { "keyword": "Lid", "sort": "3" } ]
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prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "2618", "primaryName": "Charles R.W. Lyne", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "2655", "primaryName": "Charles Wadham Lyne", "role": "Field collector", "sort": "11" } ...
2012.21.14
Glass bottle containing tablets and cotton wool, part of a medical kit [See 2012.21.2 - .53]. [FB 26/03/2012]
false
Glass bottle containing tablets and cotton wool, part of a medical kit [See 2012.21.2 -.53]. The bottle contains a number round brown tablets. The bottle has an oval printed paper label adhered to the front, printed in black ink with '25 TRADE MARK 'TABLOID' BRAND QUININE BISULPHATE (Soluble Sulphate of Quinine) COMPRE...
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Height: max 58 mm, Width: max 45 mm
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Email correspondence between donor and Museum: "...I have his pith helmet and field medical kit from that era, though the medical kit has been 'updated' with medicines and dressings that are at least from the 1920s, if not later, as it includes prescriptions for my grandmother, Muriel, whom he married in the early 1920...
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prm-object-109758
catalogue
Objects
109,758
1951.0006.9
1951.6.9
Object
yes
1
Gold lip shell crescentic breast pendant with impressed dot design. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 28/9/2005]
Ethnography
Oceania -> Melanesia -> Solomon Islands
Material: Shell, Process: Impressed, Process: Perforated
Date made: Before 1951
Donated: 1951
On display
null
Accession number: 1951.6.9 Other numbers: Edward Armytage no. 545 47877
2023-03-31T06:09:02.264
[ { "certainty": "uncertain", "id": "3982", "primaryName": "Edward Armytage", "role": "Field collector", "sort": "11" }, { "certainty": "uncertain", "id": "4045", "primaryName": "Edward Oscar Armytage", "role": "Field collector", "sort": "12" }, { "certainty": null,...
[ { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": "Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands", "region": null, "sort": "1" } ]
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[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Shell", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": null, "processIndex": "Impressed", "type": "Process" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": null, "processIndex": "Perforated", "...
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[ { "class": "Ornament" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Breast Ornament", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By 1951", "sort": "1" } ]
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null
[ { "from": "1951", "period": null, "to": null } ]
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null
[ { "id": "88022" }, { "id": "88023" } ]
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prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": "uncertain", "id": "3982", "primaryName": "Edward Armytage", "role": "Field collector", "sort": "11" }, { "certainty": "uncertain", "id": "4045", "primaryName": "Edward Oscar Armytage", "role": "Field collector", "so...
1951.6.9
Gold lip shell crescentic breast pendant with impressed dot design. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 28/9/2005]
false
null
null
Width: max 175 mm
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Related Documents File - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [GI 4/2/2002]
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prm-object-109801
catalogue
Objects
109,801
1951.0006.75
1951.6.75
Object
yes
1
Decorated bark cloth waist belt painted with orange and black (faded) designs with ties at ends. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 9/5/2005]
Ethnography
Oceania -> Melanesia -> Papua New Guinea
Material: Bark Cloth Textile Plant, Material: Pigment, Material: String, Process: Beaten, Process: Painted
Date made: Before 1951
Donated: 1951
null
null
Accession number: 1951.6.75
2023-03-31T06:09:01.275
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[ { "association": null, "certainty": "uncertain", "place": "Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea", "region": null, "sort": "1" } ]
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[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Bark Cloth Textile Plant", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Pigment", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "String", "processIndex...
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[ { "class": "Ornament" }, { "class": "Clothing" }, { "class": "Barkcloth" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Waist Ornament", "sort": "1" }, { "keyword": "Belt", "sort": "2" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By 1951", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1951", "period": null, "to": null } ]
null
null
[ { "id": "88022" }, { "id": "88023" } ]
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sor...
1951.6.75
Decorated bark cloth waist belt painted with orange and black (faded) designs with ties at ends. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 9/5/2005]
false
null
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Width: max 43 mm, Length: max 260 mm bundle
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Related Documents File - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [GI 4/2/2002]
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null
null
prm-object-24598
catalogue
Objects
24,598
1951.0002.26
1951.2.26
Object
yes
1
Necklet of dentalium shells with leather spacers. Tying thongs threaded with 2 red glass beads at ends. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/9/2005]
Ethnography
Northern America -> North America -> Canada, Northern America -> North America -> United States of America
Material: Dentalium Shell, Material: Animal Leather Skin, Material: Bead, Material: Glass, Process: Strung
Date made: Before 1907
Donated: 1951
On display
null
Accession number: 1951.2.26 Other numbers: WHMM no. 130,927
2023-06-07T14:36:20.184
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[ { "class": "Ornament" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Neck Ornament", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By 1907", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1907", "period": null, "to": null } ]
null
null
[ { "id": "88022" }, { "id": "88023" } ]
null
prm
Object
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1951.2.26
Necklet of dentalium shells with leather spacers. Tying thongs threaded with 2 red glass beads at ends. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/9/2005]
false
null
-> Plains; Plains -> Blackfoot Confederacy, uncertain
Length: max 320 mm without ties
null
Related Documents File - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [GI 4/2/2002]
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null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-28009
catalogue
Objects
28,009
1951.0002.36
1951.2.36
Object
yes
1
Walrus ivory needle-case carved as human figure. With horn-shaped toggle, ivory belt-hook, stone arrow-head and ivory thimble attached.
Ethnography
Northern America -> North America -> Canada, Northern America -> North America -> United States of America, Western Arctic
Material: Walrus Ivory Tooth Animal, Material: Stone, Material: Animal Leather Skin, Process: Carved, Process: Strung, Process: Perforated, Process: Flaked
Date made: Before 1951
Donated: 1951
On display
null
Accession number: 1951.2.36
2023-03-31T06:08:00.841
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[ { "certainty": null, "culturalGroup": "Inuit (Greenland)", "culturalGroupHierarchy": " -> Inuit (Greenland)", "id": "26074", "sort": "1" }, { "certainty": null, "culturalGroup": "Inuit", "culturalGroupHierarchy": " -> Inuit", "id": "26151", "sort": "1" } ]
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[ { "class": "Textile" }, { "class": "Tool" }, { "class": "Figure" }, { "class": "Archery Weapon" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Needle-case Sewing Equipment", "sort": "1" }, { "keyword": "Thimble Sewing Equipment", "sort": "2" }, { "keyword": "Toggle", "sort": "3" }, { "keyword": "Arrow-head", "sort": "4" }, { "keyword": "Figure", "sort": "5" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By 1951", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1951", "period": null, "to": null } ]
null
null
[ { "id": "88022" }, { "id": "88023" } ]
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sor...
1951.2.36
Walrus ivory needle-case carved as human figure. With horn-shaped toggle, ivory belt-hook, stone arrow-head and ivory thimble attached.
false
null
-> Inuit (Greenland); -> Inuit
Length 290 mm
null
Related Documents File - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [GI 4/2/2002]
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-25911
catalogue
Objects
25,911
1951.0006.62
1951.6.62
Object
yes
1
Necklace consisting of a large number of pieces of red, brown and greenish coloured horn cut into strips (serrated on one side), hung by narrow hide thongs on to a slightly wider thong. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 28/9/2005]
Ethnography
Northern America -> North America -> Canada, Northern America -> North America -> United States of America
Material: Animal Skin, Material: Animal Horn, Process: Notched
Date made: Before 1932
Donated: 1951
null
null
Accession number: 1951.6.62 Other numbers: WHMM no. 16163
2023-03-31T06:08:55.824
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[ { "association": null, "certainty": "uncertain", "place": "Northern America > North America > Canada", "region": null, "sort": "1" }, { "association": null, "certainty": "uncertain", "place": "Northern America > North America > United States of America", "region": null, "...
[ { "certainty": null, "culturalGroup": "Native American", "culturalGroupHierarchy": " -> Native American", "id": "26031", "sort": "1" } ]
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[ { "class": "Ornament" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Neck Ornament", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "1932", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1932", "period": null, "to": null } ]
null
null
[ { "id": "88022" }, { "id": "88023" } ]
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sor...
1951.6.62
Necklace consisting of a large number of pieces of red, brown and greenish coloured horn cut into strips (serrated on one side), hung by narrow hide thongs on to a slightly wider thong. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 28/9/2005]
false
null
-> Native American
Length: max 720 mm doubled
null
Related Documents File - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [GI 4/2/2002]
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-27663
catalogue
Objects
27,663
1951.0006.66
1951.6.66
Object
yes
1
Perforated gaming piece in bird form.
Ethnography
Northern America -> North America -> United States of America, Northern America -> North America -> Canada
Material: Animal Ivory Tooth, Process: Carved, Process: Perforated
Date made: Before 1951
Donated: 1951
On display
null
Accession number: 1951.6.66 Other numbers: WHMM no. 164321
2023-03-31T06:08:57.458
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[ { "association": null, "certainty": "uncertain", "place": "Northern America > North America > United States of America", "region": null, "sort": "1" }, { "association": null, "certainty": "uncertain", "place": "Northern America > North America > Canada", "region": null, "...
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[ { "class": "Toy and Game" }, { "class": "Figure" }, { "class": "Clothing" }, { "class": "Ornament" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Gaming Piece", "sort": "1" }, { "keyword": "Bird Figure", "sort": "2" }, { "keyword": "Ornament", "sort": "3" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By 1951", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1951", "period": null, "to": null } ]
null
null
[ { "id": "88022" }, { "id": "88023" } ]
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sor...
1951.6.66
Perforated gaming piece in bird form.
false
null
-> Inuit (Greenland); -> Inuit
Length: max 38 mm
null
Related Documents File - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [GI 4/2/2002]
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-28017
catalogue
Objects
28,017
1952.0002.15
1952.2.15
Object
yes
1
Adze with iron blade, riveted in two pieces, lashed to head of recurved haft by thong passed through two holes in the wood.
Ethnography
Northern America -> North America -> United States of America, Alaska
Material: Wood Plant, Material: Iron Metal, Material: Seal Skin Animal, Process: Perforated, Process: Riveted, Process: Tied, Process: Carved
Date made: Before 1952
Donated: 1952
On display
null
Accession number: 1952.2.15
2024-06-11T17:04:13.97
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[ { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": "Northern America > North America > United States of America", "region": null, "sort": "1" }, { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": null, "region": "Alaska", "sort": "50" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "culturalGroup": "Inuit (Greenland)", "culturalGroupHierarchy": " -> Inuit (Greenland)", "id": "26074", "sort": "1" }, { "certainty": null, "culturalGroup": "Inuit", "culturalGroupHierarchy": " -> Inuit", "id": "26151", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Wood Plant", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Iron Metal", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Seal Skin Animal", "processIndex"...
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[ { "class": "Tool" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Adze", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By 1952", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1952", "period": null, "to": null } ]
null
null
null
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sor...
1952.2.15
Adze with iron blade, riveted in two pieces, lashed to head of recurved haft by thong passed through two holes in the wood.
false
null
-> Inuit (Greenland); -> Inuit
Width: max 85 mm, Length: max 325 mm handle, Length: max 240 mm blade
null
Related Documents File [1951.2 and 1951.6] - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [G...
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-116611
catalogue
Objects
116,611
1952.0002.44
1952.2.44
Object
yes
1
Wooden hair comb with 4 teeth, the upper part carved in the form of a human head with headdress and large upturned nose. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 31/1/2006]
Ethnography
Africa -> Central Africa
Material: Wood Plant, Process: Carved
Date made: Before 01/1952
Donated: 1952
null
null
Accession number: 1952.2.44
2023-01-08T14:54:29.815
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[ { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": "Africa > Central Africa", "region": null, "sort": "1" } ]
null
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Wood Plant", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": null, "processIndex": "Carved", "type": "Process" } ]
null
[ { "certaintyBottomField": null, "dateText": "Donated 1952", "from": "1952", "fromYear": "1952", "preview": "Donated: 1952", "sort": "1", "toYear": "1952", "type": "Donated" } ]
[ { "class": "Ornament" }, { "class": "Toilet" }, { "class": "Figure" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Comb", "sort": "1" }, { "keyword": "Toilet Article", "sort": "2" }, { "keyword": "Figure", "sort": "3" }, { "keyword": "Hair Ornament", "sort": "4" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By January 1952", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "01/1952", "period": null, "to": null } ]
null
null
[ { "id": "88022" }, { "id": "88023" } ]
null
prm
Object
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1952.2.44
Wooden hair comb with 4 teeth, the upper part carved in the form of a human head with headdress and large upturned nose. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 31/1/2006]
false
Not supported with pagination yet
null
null
Width: max 35 mm, Length: max 225 mm
null
Related Documents File [1951.2 and 1951.6] - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [G...
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-116640
catalogue
Objects
116,640
1952.0002.78
1952.2.78
Object
yes
1
Black and gilt wooden sickle-knife in the form of a peacock, with a long figure across its back. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 16/5/2005]
Ethnography
Asia -> South-eastern Asia -> Malaysia
Material: Steel Metal, Material: Gilt Metal, Material: Wood Plant, Material: Pigment, Process: Carved, Process: Painted, Process: Decorated
Date made: Before 1910
Donated: 1952
null
null
Accession number: 1952.2.78
2023-03-31T06:21:23.845
[ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sort": "11" } ]
[ { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": "Asia > South-eastern Asia > Malaysia", "region": null, "sort": "1" } ]
null
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Steel Metal", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Gilt Metal", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Wood Plant", "processIndex": nul...
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[ { "class": "Agriculture and Horticulture" }, { "class": "Tool" }, { "class": "Figure" }, { "class": "Weapon" }, { "class": "Ritual and Ceremonial" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Sickle", "sort": "1" }, { "keyword": "Agricultural Tool", "sort": "2" }, { "keyword": "Figure", "sort": "3" }, { "keyword": "Bird Figure", "sort": "4" }, { "keyword": "Knife", "sort": "5" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "1910", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1910", "period": null, "to": null } ]
null
null
[ { "id": "88022" }, { "id": "88023" } ]
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sor...
1952.2.78
Black and gilt wooden sickle-knife in the form of a peacock, with a long figure across its back. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 16/5/2005]
false
null
null
Width: max 210 mm of peacock, Length: max 230 mm of figure
null
Related Documents File [1951.2 and 1951.6] - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [G...
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-270828
catalogue
Objects
270,828
2012.0021.18.1
2012.21.18.1
Object
yes
1
A printed orange cardboard box for tannic acid, part of a medical kit [See 2012.21.2 -.53]. [FB 26/03/2012]
Ethnography
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland England
Material: Ink, Material: Paper Plant, Material: Metal, Material: Cardboard Paper Plant, Material: Plastic Synthetic, Process: Printed
null
Donated: 02/02/2012
null
null
Accession number: 2012.21.18.1
2026-04-01T15:57:33.314
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[ { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": "Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", "region": null, "sort": "1" }, { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": null, "region": "England", "sort": "50" } ]
null
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Ink", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Paper Plant", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Metal", "processIndex": null, "type...
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[ { "certaintyBottomField": null, "dateText": "Donated 02/02/2012", "from": "02/02/2012", "fromYear": "2012", "preview": "Donated: 02/02/2012", "sort": "1", "toYear": "2012", "type": "Donated" } ]
[ { "class": "Medicine" }, { "class": "Textile" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Medicine", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "2618", "primaryName": "Charles R.W. Lyne", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "2655", "primaryName": "Charles Wadham Lyne", "role": "Field collector", "sort": "11" } ...
2012.21.18.1
A printed orange cardboard box for tannic acid, part of a medical kit [See 2012.21.2 -.53]. [FB 26/03/2012]
false
A printed orange cardboard box for tannic acid, part of a medical kit [See 2012.21.2 -.53]. [FB 26/03/2012] The box is printed with the words "TRADE MARK 'TANNAFAX' BRAND TANNIC ACID JELLY' and manufacturers information. Manufacturer is listed as Burroughs Wellcome.[VS [OPS move] 21/6/2018]
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Length x Width x Depth: max 124 x 23 x 23 mm
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Email correspondence between donor and Museum: "...I have his pith helmet and field medical kit from that era, though the medical kit has been 'updated' with medicines and dressings that are at least from the 1920s, if not later, as it includes prescriptions for my grandmother, Muriel, whom he married in the early 1920...
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prm-object-115519
catalogue
Objects
115,519
1949.0012.49
1949.12.49
Object
yes
1
Stone grinder
Archaeology
Africa -> Northern Africa -> Sudan, Republic of, near Jebel Moya Abu Geili [Aloa]
Material: Stone, Process: Ground
Date made: 1700-1800
Donated: 1949
null
null
Accession number: 1949.12.49 Other numbers: 400/18/3
2023-01-08T17:59:19.492
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[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Stone", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": null, "processIndex": "Ground", "type": "Process" } ]
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[ { "class": "Tool" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Grinder", "sort": null } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "1910 - 1914", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1700", "period": null, "to": "1800" } ]
null
null
null
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "1401", "primaryName": "Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "102" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "6364", "primaryName": "Henry Solomon Wellcome", "role": "Field collector", ...
1949.12.49
Stone grinder
false
Not supported with pagination yet
null
-> Funj, uncertain
Diameter 76 mm
null
Abu Geili was excavated by Sir Henry Wellcome between 1910 and 1914. Wellcome died in 1937 before publishing the excavations, and consequently Frank Addison and Osbert Crawford were employed by the Wellcome Trust to complete the project. This was achieved in 1951 with the final publication of the excavations at Abu Gei...
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null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-115525
catalogue
Objects
115,525
1949.0012.55
1949.12.55
Object
yes
1
Spindle-whorl
Archaeology
Africa -> Northern Africa -> Sudan, Republic of, near Jebel Moya Abu Geili [Aloa]
Material: Pottery, Material: Clay, Process: Incised
Date made: 1700-1800
Donated: 1949
null
null
Accession number: 1949.12.55 Other numbers: R. 37/F.3
2023-01-08T17:59:19.503
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[ { "certainty": "uncertain", "culturalGroup": "Funj", "culturalGroupHierarchy": " -> Funj", "id": "30777", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Pottery", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Clay", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": null, "processIndex": "Incised", "type"...
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[ { "class": "Textile" }, { "class": "Pottery" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Spindle-whorl", "sort": null } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "1910 - 1914", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1700", "period": null, "to": "1800" } ]
null
null
null
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "1401", "primaryName": "Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "102" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "6364", "primaryName": "Henry Solomon Wellcome", "role": "Field collector", ...
1949.12.55
Spindle-whorl
false
Not supported with pagination yet
null
-> Funj, uncertain
Diameter 38 mm
null
Abu Geili was excavated by Sir Henry Wellcome between 1910 and 1914. Wellcome died in 1937 before publishing the excavations, and consequently Frank Addison and Osbert Crawford were employed by the Wellcome Trust to complete the project. This was achieved in 1951 with the final publication of the excavations at Abu Gei...
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null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-115527
catalogue
Objects
115,527
1949.0012.57
1949.12.57
Object
yes
1
Spindle-whorl
Archaeology
Africa -> Northern Africa -> Sudan, Republic of, near Jebel Moya Abu Geili [Aloa]
Material: Pottery, Material: Clay, Process: Incised
Date made: 1700-1800
Donated: 1949
null
null
Accession number: 1949.12.57 Other numbers: R. 37/F.3
2023-01-08T17:59:19.503
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[ { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": "Africa > Northern Africa > Sudan, Republic of", "region": null, "sort": "1" }, { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": null, "region": "near Jebel Moya Abu Geili [Aloa]", "sort": "50" } ]
[ { "certainty": "uncertain", "culturalGroup": "Funj", "culturalGroupHierarchy": " -> Funj", "id": "30777", "sort": "1" } ]
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[ { "class": "Textile" }, { "class": "Pottery" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Spindle-whorl", "sort": null } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "1910 - 1914", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1700", "period": null, "to": "1800" } ]
null
null
null
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "1401", "primaryName": "Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "102" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "6364", "primaryName": "Henry Solomon Wellcome", "role": "Field collector", ...
1949.12.57
Spindle-whorl
false
Not supported with pagination yet
null
-> Funj, uncertain
Diameter 38 mm
null
Abu Geili was excavated by Sir Henry Wellcome between 1910 and 1914. Wellcome died in 1937 before publishing the excavations, and consequently Frank Addison and Osbert Crawford were employed by the Wellcome Trust to complete the project. This was achieved in 1951 with the final publication of the excavations at Abu Gei...
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null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-115533
catalogue
Objects
115,533
1949.0012.63
1949.12.63
Object
yes
1
Spindle-whorl
Archaeology
Africa -> Northern Africa -> Sudan, Republic of, near Jebel Moya Abu Geili [Aloa]
Material: Pottery, Material: Clay, Process: Incised
Date made: 1700-1800
Donated: 1949
null
null
Accession number: 1949.12.63
2023-01-08T17:59:19.503
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[ { "certainty": "uncertain", "culturalGroup": "Funj", "culturalGroupHierarchy": " -> Funj", "id": "30777", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Pottery", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Clay", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": null, "processIndex": "Incised", "type"...
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[ { "class": "Textile" }, { "class": "Pottery" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Spindle-whorl", "sort": null } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "1910 - 1914", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1700", "period": null, "to": "1800" } ]
null
null
null
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "1401", "primaryName": "Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "102" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "6364", "primaryName": "Henry Solomon Wellcome", "role": "Field collector", ...
1949.12.63
Spindle-whorl
false
Not supported with pagination yet
null
-> Funj, uncertain
Diameter 38 mm
null
Abu Geili was excavated by Sir Henry Wellcome between 1910 and 1914. Wellcome died in 1937 before publishing the excavations, and consequently Frank Addison and Osbert Crawford were employed by the Wellcome Trust to complete the project. This was achieved in 1951 with the final publication of the excavations at Abu Gei...
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null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-115537
catalogue
Objects
115,537
1949.0012.67
1949.12.67
Object
yes
1
Ring fragment
Archaeology
Africa -> Northern Africa -> Sudan, Republic of, near Jebel Moya Abu Geili [Aloa]
Material: Stone, Process: Polished
Date made: 1700-1800
Donated: 1949
null
null
Accession number: 1949.12.67 Other numbers: 93
2023-01-08T17:59:19.503
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[ { "certainty": "uncertain", "culturalGroup": "Funj", "culturalGroupHierarchy": " -> Funj", "id": "30777", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Stone", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": null, "processIndex": "Polished", "type": "Process" } ]
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[ { "class": "Ornament" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Finger Ring", "sort": null } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "1910 - 1914", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1700", "period": null, "to": "1800" } ]
null
null
null
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "1401", "primaryName": "Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "102" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "6364", "primaryName": "Henry Solomon Wellcome", "role": "Field collector", ...
1949.12.67
Ring fragment
false
Not supported with pagination yet
null
-> Funj, uncertain
null
null
Abu Geili was excavated by Sir Henry Wellcome between 1910 and 1914. Wellcome died in 1937 before publishing the excavations, and consequently Frank Addison and Osbert Crawford were employed by the Wellcome Trust to complete the project. This was achieved in 1951 with the final publication of the excavations at Abu Gei...
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null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-115540
catalogue
Objects
115,540
1949.0012.70
1949.12.70
Object
yes
1
Vessel fragment
Archaeology
Africa -> Northern Africa -> Sudan, Republic of, near Jebel Moya Abu Geili [Aloa]
Material: Stone, Process: Polished
Date made: 1700-1800
Donated: 1949
null
null
Accession number: 1949.12.70 Other numbers: 600 or 009
2023-01-08T17:59:19.503
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[ { "certainty": "uncertain", "culturalGroup": "Funj", "culturalGroupHierarchy": " -> Funj", "id": "30777", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Stone", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": null, "processIndex": "Polished", "type": "Process" } ]
null
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[ { "class": "Vessel" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Vessel", "sort": null } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "1910 - 1914", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1700", "period": null, "to": "1800" } ]
null
null
null
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "1401", "primaryName": "Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "102" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "6364", "primaryName": "Henry Solomon Wellcome", "role": "Field collector", ...
1949.12.70
Vessel fragment
false
Not supported with pagination yet
null
-> Funj, uncertain
Height 25 mm
null
Abu Geili was excavated by Sir Henry Wellcome between 1910 and 1914. Wellcome died in 1937 before publishing the excavations, and consequently Frank Addison and Osbert Crawford were employed by the Wellcome Trust to complete the project. This was achieved in 1951 with the final publication of the excavations at Abu Gei...
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null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-115544
catalogue
Objects
115,544
1949.0012.74
1949.12.74
Object
yes
1
Model animal.
Archaeology
Sudan, Republic of near Jebel Moya Abu Geili [Aloa]
Material: Clay, Process: Moulded
Date made: 1700-1800
Donated: 1949
null
null
Accession number: 1949.12.74 Other numbers: 58
2026-02-25T09:37:23.301
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[ { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": "Africa > Northern Africa > Sudan, Republic of", "region": null, "sort": "1" }, { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": null, "region": "near Jebel Moya Abu Geili [Aloa]", "sort": "50" } ]
[ { "certainty": "uncertain", "culturalGroup": "Funj", "culturalGroupHierarchy": " -> Funj", "id": "30777", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Clay", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": null, "processIndex": "Moulded", "type": "Process" } ]
[ { "id": "51817", "identifier": "PRM_RS295037_1949.0012.74.jpg", "irn": "295037", "isPublished": "Yes", "mimeType": "image", "path": "", "ranking": "5", "resourceSpaceId": "295037", "rights": null } ]
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[ { "class": "Model" }, { "class": "Figure" }, { "class": "Pottery" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Model", "sort": "1" }, { "keyword": "Animal Figure", "sort": "2" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "1910 - 1914", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1700", "period": null, "to": "1800" } ]
null
null
[ { "id": "88023" } ]
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "1401", "primaryName": "Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "102" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "6364", "primaryName": "Henry Solomon Wellcome", "role": "Field collector", ...
1949.12.74
Model animal.
false
null
-> Funj, uncertain
Length: max 21 mm
null
Abu Geili was excavated by Sir Henry Wellcome between 1910 and 1914. Wellcome died in 1937 before publishing the excavations, and consequently Frank Addison and Osbert Crawford were employed by the Wellcome Trust to complete the project. This was achieved in 1951 with the final publication of the excavations at Abu Gei...
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null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-115555
catalogue
Objects
115,555
1949.0012.78.6
1949.12.78.6
Object
yes
1
Oval piece of mother of pearl. [El.B DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 13/10/2010]
Archaeology
Sudan, Republic of near Jebel Moya Abu Geili [Aloa]
Material: Mother of Pearl Shell
Date made: 1700-1800
Donated: 1949
null
null
Accession number: 1949.12.78.6 Other numbers: 322, 640, 906
2026-03-27T09:12:22.671
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[ { "certainty": "uncertain", "culturalGroup": "Funj", "culturalGroupHierarchy": " -> Funj", "id": "30777", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Mother of Pearl Shell", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" } ]
[ { "id": "51827", "identifier": "PRM_RS295420_1949.0012.78.6.jpg", "irn": "295420", "isPublished": "Yes", "mimeType": "image", "path": "", "ranking": "5", "resourceSpaceId": "295420", "rights": null } ]
[ { "certaintyBottomField": null, "dateText": "Donated December 1949", "from": "1949", "fromYear": "1949", "preview": "Donated: 1949", "sort": "1", "toYear": "1949", "type": "Donated" } ]
[ { "class": "Ornament" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Pendant", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "1910 - 1914", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1700", "period": null, "to": "1800" } ]
null
null
[ { "id": "88023" } ]
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "1401", "primaryName": "Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "102" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "6364", "primaryName": "Henry Solomon Wellcome", "role": "Field collector", ...
1949.12.78.6
Oval piece of mother of pearl. [El.B DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 13/10/2010]
false
null
-> Funj, uncertain
Length: max 13 mm
null
Abu Geili was excavated by Sir Henry Wellcome between 1910 and 1914. Wellcome died in 1937 before publishing the excavations, and consequently Frank Addison and Osbert Crawford were employed by the Wellcome Trust to complete the project. This was achieved in 1951 with the final publication of the excavations at Abu Gei...
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null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-115520
catalogue
Objects
115,520
1949.0012.50
1949.12.50
Object
yes
1
Greyware pottery bowl, broken, previously repaired, but two fragments are still unattached. [MOBB [OPS move] 04/02/2016]
Archaeology
Sudan, Republic of near Jebel Moya Abu Geili [Aloa]
Material: Pottery, Process: Incised
Date made: 1700-1800
Donated: 1949
null
null
Accession number: 1949.12.50 Other numbers: C/2521
2026-05-19T14:20:10.21
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[ { "certainty": "uncertain", "culturalGroup": "Funj", "culturalGroupHierarchy": " -> Funj", "id": "30777", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Pottery", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": null, "processIndex": "Incised", "type": "Process" } ]
[ { "id": "164767", "identifier": "PRM_RS251779_1949.0012.50.jpg", "irn": "251779", "isPublished": "Yes", "mimeType": "image", "path": "", "ranking": "5", "resourceSpaceId": "251779", "rights": null } ]
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[ { "class": "Vessel" }, { "class": "Pottery" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Bowl", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "1910 - 1914", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1700", "period": null, "to": "1800" } ]
null
null
[ { "id": "88023" } ]
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "1401", "primaryName": "Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "102" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "6364", "primaryName": "Henry Solomon Wellcome", "role": "Field collector", ...
1949.12.50
Greyware pottery bowl, broken, previously repaired, but two fragments are still unattached. [MOBB [OPS move] 04/02/2016]
false
Greyware pottery bowl, broken, previously repaired, but two fragments are still unattached. On the exterior of the rim of the bowl has a band of cross hatched design, and beneath that is a band of punched holes. There is a band of punched decoration on the inside of the rim of the bowl. In addition, there are six perfo...
-> Funj, uncertain
Height: max 152 mm, Diameter: max 410 mm at rim
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Abu Geili was excavated by Sir Henry Wellcome between 1910 and 1914. Wellcome died in 1937 before publishing the excavations, and consequently Frank Addison and Osbert Crawford were employed by the Wellcome Trust to complete the project. This was achieved in 1951 with the final publication of the excavations at Abu Gei...
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prm-object-115517
catalogue
Objects
115,517
1949.0012.47
1949.12.47
Object
yes
1
Black burnished open bowl with a flat bottom. The outer side of the rim is decorated. This object has been broken and reconstructed.
Archaeology
Sudan, Republic of near Jebel Moya Abu Geili [Aloa]
Material: Pottery, Process: Burnished, Process: Incised, Process: Perforated
Date made: 1700-1800
Donated: 1949
null
null
Accession number: 1949.12.47 Other numbers: 400/18/1
2026-05-13T09:25:45.1
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[ { "class": "Pottery" }, { "class": "Vessel" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Bowl", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "1910 - 1914", "sort": "1" } ]
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null
null
[ { "from": "1700", "period": null, "to": "1800" } ]
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null
[ { "id": "88023" } ]
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prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "1401", "primaryName": "Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "102" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "6364", "primaryName": "Henry Solomon Wellcome", "role": "Field collector", ...
1949.12.47
Black burnished open bowl with a flat bottom. The outer side of the rim is decorated. This object has been broken and reconstructed.
false
Black burnished open bowl with a flat bottom. The outer side of the rim is decorated with a band of incised lozenges between two bands of parallel lines and dots. 8 holes (in pairs) pierced in side of pot, below rim.
-> Funj, uncertain
Diameter: max 290 mm, Height: max 120 mm
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Abu Geili was excavated by Sir Henry Wellcome between 1910 and 1914. Wellcome died in 1937 before publishing the excavations, and consequently Frank Addison and Osbert Crawford were employed by the Wellcome Trust to complete the project. This was achieved in 1951 with the final publication of the excavations at Abu Gei...
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prm-object-109737
catalogue
Objects
109,737
1951.0002.40
1951.2.40
Object
yes
1
Tubular fibre belt decorated with red, white and pale blue beads and skin fringes. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 12/7/2005]
Ethnography
Africa -> Southern Africa -> South Africa
Material: Plant Fibre, Material: Grass Fibre Plant, Material: Bead, Material: Skin, Material: Glass, Material: String, Process: Woven, Process: Stuffed, Process: Decorated, Process: Beadwork, Process: Strung
Date made: Before 1951
Donated: 1951
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null
Accession number: 1951.2.40 Other numbers: WHMM no. 243108
2024-03-06T15:20:18.249
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[ { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": "Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa", "region": null, "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": "uncertain", "culturalGroup": "Zulu", "culturalGroupHierarchy": "Southern Africa -> Nguni -> Zulu", "id": "25188", "sort": "1" } ]
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[ { "class": "Clothing" }, { "class": "Ornament" }, { "class": "Bead" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Belt", "sort": null }, { "keyword": "Waist Ornament", "sort": null } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By 1951", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1951", "period": null, "to": null } ]
null
null
null
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sor...
1951.2.40
Tubular fibre belt decorated with red, white and pale blue beads and skin fringes. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 12/7/2005]
false
null
Southern Africa -> Nguni -> Zulu, uncertain
Length: max 490 mm doubled
null
Related Documents File - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [GI 4/2/2002]
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prm-object-28007
catalogue
Objects
28,007
1951.0002.34
1951.2.34
Object
yes
1
Curved knife with filed steel riveted into bone shaft with two rivets. Shaft bound with cane.
Ethnography
Northern America -> North America -> Canada, Northern America -> North America -> United States of America, Western Arctic
Material: Bone, Material: Steel Metal, Material: Copper Metal, Material: Cane Plant, Process: Riveted, Process: Bound, Process: Carved
Date made: Before 1951
Donated: 1951
On display
null
Accession number: 1951.2.34
2023-03-31T06:08:00.147
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[ { "class": "Tool" }, { "class": "Weapon" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Knife", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By 1951", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1951", "period": null, "to": null } ]
null
null
[ { "id": "88022" }, { "id": "88023" } ]
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sor...
1951.2.34
Curved knife with filed steel riveted into bone shaft with two rivets. Shaft bound with cane.
false
null
-> Inuit (Greenland); -> Inuit
Length: max 222 mm
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Related Documents File - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [GI 4/2/2002]
The reference to Murdoch probably refers to "Ethnological results of the Point Barrow Expedition", by John Murdoch, in the 9th Annual report of the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology, part 1 (1887-1888); Washington: ?Government Printing Office, 1892. [CW 7/6/2000]
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prm-object-109734
catalogue
Objects
109,734
1951.0002.30
1951.2.30
Object
yes
1
Neck ornament; small ?monkey teeth bound onto a band (of circular section) wound with cotton. Long cotton string ties. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 5/12/2005]
Ethnography
Latin America and the Caribbean -> South America -> Guyana
Material: Cotton Yarn Plant, Material: Monkey Tooth Animal, Process: Bound, Process: Basketry, Process: Perforated
Date made: Before 1951
Donated: 1951
null
null
Accession number: 1951.2.30 Other numbers: WHMM no. 5880
2023-03-31T06:07:58.534
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[ { "association": null, "certainty": "uncertain", "place": "Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Guyana", "region": null, "sort": "1" } ]
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[ { "class": "Ornament" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Neck Ornament", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By 1951", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1951", "period": null, "to": null } ]
null
null
[ { "id": "88022" }, { "id": "88023" } ]
null
prm
Object
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1951.2.30
Neck ornament; small ?monkey teeth bound onto a band (of circular section) wound with cotton. Long cotton string ties. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 5/12/2005]
false
null
null
Length: max 820 mm excl. ties
null
Related Documents File - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [GI 4/2/2002]
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prm-object-22272
catalogue
Objects
22,272
1951.0006.77
1951.6.77
Object
yes
1
Bamboo tobacco pipe with incised animal design.
Ethnography
Oceania -> Australia and New Zealand -> Australia, Queensland Torres Strait Islands
Material: Bamboo Plant, Process: Incised
Date made: Before 1951
Donated: 1951
On display
null
Accession number: 1951.6.77 Other numbers: WHMM no. 132134
2023-01-08T12:51:04.041
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[ { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": "Oceania > Australia and New Zealand > Australia", "region": null, "sort": "1" }, { "association": null, "certainty": "uncertain", "place": null, "region": "Queensland Torres Strait Islands", "sort": "50" } ]
null
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Bamboo Plant", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": null, "processIndex": "Incised", "type": "Process" } ]
null
[ { "certaintyBottomField": null, "dateText": "Donated 1951", "from": "1951", "fromYear": "1951", "preview": "Donated: 1951", "sort": "1", "toYear": "1951", "type": "Donated" } ]
[ { "class": "Narcotic" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Pipe", "sort": "1" }, { "keyword": "Tobacco Accessory", "sort": "2" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By 1951", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1951", "period": null, "to": null } ]
null
null
[ { "id": "88022" }, { "id": "88023" } ]
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sor...
1951.6.77
Bamboo tobacco pipe with incised animal design.
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Not supported with pagination yet
null
null
Width 62 mm, Length 831 mm
null
Related Documents File - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [GI 4/2/2002]
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null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-28018
catalogue
Objects
28,018
1951.0002.35
1951.2.35
Object
yes
1
Adze with stone blade set in bone foreshaft, fixed to bone handle with sinew through four holes. [El.B 24/04/2012]
Ethnography
Northern America -> North America -> United States of America, Western Arctic, Northern America -> North America -> Canada, Western Arctic
Material: Stone, Material: Animal Sinew, Material: Whale Bone Animal, Process: Carved, Process: Perforated, Process: Bound
Date made: Before 1951
Donated: 1951
null
null
Accession number: 1951.2.35
2025-12-19T15:00:38.342
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[ { "association": null, "certainty": "uncertain", "place": "Northern America > North America > United States of America", "region": "Western Arctic", "sort": "1" }, { "association": null, "certainty": "uncertain", "place": "Northern America > North America > Canada", "region":...
[ { "certainty": null, "culturalGroup": "Inuit (Greenland)", "culturalGroupHierarchy": " -> Inuit (Greenland)", "id": "26074", "sort": "1" }, { "certainty": null, "culturalGroup": "Inuit", "culturalGroupHierarchy": " -> Inuit", "id": "26151", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Stone", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Animal Sinew", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Whale Bone Animal", "processIndex": ...
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[ { "class": "Tool" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Adze", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By 1951", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1951", "period": null, "to": null } ]
null
null
[ { "id": "88022" }, { "id": "88023" } ]
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sor...
1951.2.35
Adze with stone blade set in bone foreshaft, fixed to bone handle with sinew through four holes. [El.B 24/04/2012]
false
null
-> Inuit (Greenland); -> Inuit
Depth: max 49 mm, Width: max 122 mm, Length: max 237 mm
null
Related Documents File - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [GI 4/2/2002]
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null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-27662
catalogue
Objects
27,662
1951.0006.65
1951.6.65
Object
yes
1
Gaming piece in the form of a bird.
Ethnography
Northern America -> North America -> United States of America, Northern America -> North America -> Canada
Material: Tooth, Material: Animal Ivory Tooth, Process: Carved
Date made: Before 1951
Donated: 1951
On display
null
Accession number: 1951.6.65 Other numbers: WHMM no. 164321
2023-03-31T06:08:56.836
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[ { "association": null, "certainty": "uncertain", "place": "Northern America > North America > United States of America", "region": null, "sort": "1" }, { "association": null, "certainty": "uncertain", "place": "Northern America > North America > Canada", "region": null, "...
[ { "certainty": null, "culturalGroup": "Inuit (Greenland)", "culturalGroupHierarchy": " -> Inuit (Greenland)", "id": "26074", "sort": "1" }, { "certainty": null, "culturalGroup": "Inuit", "culturalGroupHierarchy": " -> Inuit", "id": "26151", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Tooth", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Animal Ivory Tooth", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": null, "processIndex": "Carved",...
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[ { "class": "Toy and Game" }, { "class": "Figure" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Gaming Piece", "sort": "1" }, { "keyword": "Bird Figure", "sort": "2" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By 1951", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1951", "period": null, "to": null } ]
null
null
[ { "id": "88022" }, { "id": "88023" } ]
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sor...
1951.6.65
Gaming piece in the form of a bird.
false
null
-> Inuit (Greenland); -> Inuit
Length: max 38 mm
null
Related Documents File - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [GI 4/2/2002]
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null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-26013
catalogue
Objects
26,013
1951.0002.23
1951.2.23
Object
yes
1
Buckskin tobacco pouch decorated with a circular quillwork design, a fringe of skin strips bound with quill, and hide tassels.
Ethnography
Northern America -> North America -> Canada, Northern America -> North America -> United States of America
Material: Buck Skin Animal, Material: Quill, Process: Quillwork, Process: Bound, Process: Repaired (local)
Date made: Circa 1800-1850
Donated: 1951
On display
null
Accession number: 1951.2.23 Other numbers: WHMM no. 41759
2024-03-13T10:14:23.836
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[ { "certainty": null, "culturalGroup": "Native American", "culturalGroupHierarchy": " -> Native American", "id": "26031", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Buck Skin Animal", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Quill", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": null, "processIndex": "Quillwork"...
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[ { "class": "Bag" }, { "class": "Narcotic" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Bag", "sort": "1" }, { "keyword": "Tobacco Accessory", "sort": "2" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By 1925", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1800", "period": null, "to": "1850" } ]
null
null
[ { "id": "88022" }, { "id": "88023" } ]
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sor...
1951.2.23
Buckskin tobacco pouch decorated with a circular quillwork design, a fringe of skin strips bound with quill, and hide tassels.
false
null
-> Native American
Length: max 370 mm excl. fringe, Width: max 165 mm
null
Related Documents File - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [GI 4/2/2002]
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null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-116598
catalogue
Objects
116,598
1952.0002.31
1952.2.31
Object
yes
1
Wooden hair comb with four teeth topped with an animal head (perhaps a ram?) [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 2/2/2006]
Ethnography
Africa -> Central Africa
Material: Wood Plant, Process: Carved
Date made: Before 01/1952
Donated: 1952
null
null
Accession number: 1952.2.31
2023-03-31T06:21:19.03
[ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sort": "11" } ]
[ { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": "Africa > Central Africa", "region": null, "sort": "1" } ]
null
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Wood Plant", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": null, "processIndex": "Carved", "type": "Process" } ]
[ { "id": "54440", "identifier": "PRM_RS316536_1952.0002.31.jpg", "irn": "316536", "isPublished": "Yes", "mimeType": "image", "path": "", "ranking": "5", "resourceSpaceId": "316536", "rights": null } ]
[ { "certaintyBottomField": null, "dateText": "Donated 1952", "from": "1952", "fromYear": "1952", "preview": "Donated: 1952", "sort": "1", "toYear": "1952", "type": "Donated" } ]
[ { "class": "Ornament" }, { "class": "Toilet" }, { "class": "Figure" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Comb", "sort": "1" }, { "keyword": "Toilet Article", "sort": "5" }, { "keyword": "Animal Figure", "sort": "2" }, { "keyword": "Figure", "sort": "3" }, { "keyword": "Hair Ornament", "sort": "4" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By January 1952", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "01/1952", "period": null, "to": null } ]
null
null
[ { "id": "88022" }, { "id": "88023" } ]
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sor...
1952.2.31
Wooden hair comb with four teeth topped with an animal head (perhaps a ram?) [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 2/2/2006]
false
null
null
Length: max 125 mm
null
Related Documents File [1951.2 and 1951.6] - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [G...
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null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-25965
catalogue
Objects
25,965
1952.0002.4
1952.2.4
Object
yes
1
Rawhide strike-a-light pouch.
Ethnography
Northern America -> North America -> Canada, Northern America -> North America -> United States of America
Material: Animal Rawhide Skin, Material: Glass, Material: Bone, Material: Brass Metal, Material: Bird Feather, Material: Horse Hair Animal, Material: Animal Sinew, Process: Beadwork
Date made: Before 1952
Donated: 1952
null
null
Accession number: 1952.2.4
2025-04-14T13:21:33.524
[ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sort": "11" } ]
[ { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": "Northern America > North America > Canada", "region": null, "sort": "1" }, { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": "Northern America > North America > United States of America", "region": null, "sort": "2" }...
[ { "certainty": null, "culturalGroup": "Native American", "culturalGroupHierarchy": " -> Native American", "id": "26031", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Animal Rawhide Skin", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Glass", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Bone", "processIndex": null, ...
[ { "id": "54441", "identifier": "PRM_RS316173_1952.0002.4.jpg", "irn": "316173", "isPublished": "Yes", "mimeType": "image", "path": "", "ranking": "5", "resourceSpaceId": "316173", "rights": null } ]
[ { "certaintyBottomField": null, "dateText": "Donated 1952", "from": "1952", "fromYear": "1952", "preview": "Donated: 1952", "sort": "1", "toYear": "1952", "type": "Donated" } ]
[ { "class": "Fire" }, { "class": "Bag" }, { "class": "Religion" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Fire Accessory", "sort": "1" }, { "keyword": "Bag", "sort": "2" }, { "keyword": "Religious Object", "sort": "3" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By 1952", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1952", "period": null, "to": null } ]
null
null
[ { "id": "88022" }, { "id": "88023" } ]
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sor...
1952.2.4
Rawhide strike-a-light pouch.
false
Rawhide strike-a-light pouch with geometrical beadwork designs and thong with bone and brass beads, horsehair, feather and string attached [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 25/7/2005]
-> Native American
Length: max 110 mm pouch, Width: max 70 mm pouch
null
Related Documents File [1951.2 and 1951.6] - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [G...
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-241433
catalogue
Objects
241,433
2012.0021.18.3
2012.21.18.3
Object
yes
1
Tube of tannic acid jelly, part of a medical kit [See 2012.21.2 -.53]. [VS [OPS move] 21/6/2018]
Ethnography
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland England
Material: Ink, Material: Paper Plant, Material: Metal, Material: Cardboard Paper Plant, Material: Plastic Synthetic, Process: Printed
null
Donated: 02/02/2012
null
null
Accession number: 2012.21.18.3
2026-04-01T15:57:33.312
[ { "certainty": null, "id": "2618", "primaryName": "Charles R.W. Lyne", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "2655", "primaryName": "Charles Wadham Lyne", "role": "Field collector", "sort": "11" } ]
[ { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": "Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", "region": null, "sort": "1" }, { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": null, "region": "England", "sort": "50" } ]
null
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Ink", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Paper Plant", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Metal", "processIndex": null, "type...
[ { "id": "210421", "identifier": "PRM_RS360562_2012.0021.18.3.jpg", "irn": "360562", "isPublished": "Yes", "mimeType": "image", "path": "", "ranking": "5", "resourceSpaceId": "360562", "rights": null } ]
[ { "certaintyBottomField": null, "dateText": "Donated 02/02/2012", "from": "02/02/2012", "fromYear": "2012", "preview": "Donated: 02/02/2012", "sort": "1", "toYear": "2012", "type": "Donated" } ]
[ { "class": "Medicine" }, { "class": "Textile" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Medicine", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "2618", "primaryName": "Charles R.W. Lyne", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "2655", "primaryName": "Charles Wadham Lyne", "role": "Field collector", "sort": "11" } ...
2012.21.18.3
Tube of tannic acid jelly, part of a medical kit [See 2012.21.2 -.53]. [VS [OPS move] 21/6/2018]
false
Tube of tannic acid jelly, part of a medical kit [See 2012.21.2 -.53] The tube contains "Tannafax Tannic Acid Jelly" in an orange tube. The tube is printed with the words "TRADE MARK 'TANNAFAX' BRAND TANNIC ACID JELLY (Tannic Acid, with 0.5% Phenol, in a water-soluble base) 20 gm. approx. (3/4 oz. approx.) Apply lightl...
null
Length x Width: max 100 x 30 mm
null
Email correspondence between donor and Museum: "...I have his pith helmet and field medical kit from that era, though the medical kit has been 'updated' with medicines and dressings that are at least from the 1920s, if not later, as it includes prescriptions for my grandmother, Muriel, whom he married in the early 1920...
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null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-116591
catalogue
Objects
116,591
1952.0002.24
1952.2.24
Object
yes
1
Wooden hair comb with three teeth. Disc-shaped head carved with a human face on one side and fine geometric designs on the other. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 31/1/2006]
Ethnography
Africa -> Central Africa
Material: Wood Plant, Process: Carved
Date made: Before 01/1952
Donated: 1952
null
null
Accession number: 1952.2.24 Other numbers: 44283
2023-01-08T14:54:29.811
[ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sort": "11" } ]
[ { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": "Africa > Central Africa", "region": null, "sort": "1" } ]
null
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Wood Plant", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": null, "processIndex": "Carved", "type": "Process" } ]
null
[ { "certaintyBottomField": null, "dateText": "Donated 1952", "from": "1952", "fromYear": "1952", "preview": "Donated: 1952", "sort": "1", "toYear": "1952", "type": "Donated" } ]
[ { "class": "Ornament" }, { "class": "Toilet" }, { "class": "Figure" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Comb", "sort": "1" }, { "keyword": "Toilet Article", "sort": "2" }, { "keyword": "Figure", "sort": "3" }, { "keyword": "Hair Ornament", "sort": "4" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By January 1952", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "01/1952", "period": null, "to": null } ]
null
null
[ { "id": "88022" }, { "id": "88023" } ]
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sor...
1952.2.24
Wooden hair comb with three teeth. Disc-shaped head carved with a human face on one side and fine geometric designs on the other. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 31/1/2006]
false
Not supported with pagination yet
null
null
Width: max 21 mm, Length: max 136 mm
null
Related Documents File [1951.2 and 1951.6] - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [G...
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-116616
catalogue
Objects
116,616
1952.0002.49
1952.2.49
Object
yes
1
Wooden hair comb with three prongs. topped with a face with a protruding nose (snout?) and antelope-like horns. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 31/1/2006]
Ethnography
Africa -> Central Africa
Material: Wood Plant, Process: Carved
Date made: Before 01/1952
Donated: 1952
null
null
Accession number: 1952.2.49
2023-01-08T14:54:29.818
[ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sort": "11" } ]
[ { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": "Africa > Central Africa", "region": null, "sort": "1" } ]
null
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Wood Plant", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": null, "processIndex": "Carved", "type": "Process" } ]
null
[ { "certaintyBottomField": null, "dateText": "Donated 1952", "from": "1952", "fromYear": "1952", "preview": "Donated: 1952", "sort": "1", "toYear": "1952", "type": "Donated" } ]
[ { "class": "Ornament" }, { "class": "Toilet" }, { "class": "Figure" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Comb", "sort": "1" }, { "keyword": "Toilet Article", "sort": "5" }, { "keyword": "Animal Figure", "sort": "2" }, { "keyword": "Figure", "sort": "3" }, { "keyword": "Hair Ornament", "sort": "4" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By January 1952", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "01/1952", "period": null, "to": null } ]
null
null
[ { "id": "88022" }, { "id": "88023" } ]
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sor...
1952.2.49
Wooden hair comb with three prongs. topped with a face with a protruding nose (snout?) and antelope-like horns. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 31/1/2006]
false
Not supported with pagination yet
null
null
Length: max 210 mm
null
Related Documents File [1951.2 and 1951.6] - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [G...
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-25922
catalogue
Objects
25,922
1952.0002.70
1952.2.70
Object
yes
1
Black horn spoon: bowl with brown patterning, rivetted to a handle carved with totemic designs. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 14/3/2006]
Ethnography
Northern America -> North America -> Canada, Northern America -> North America -> United States of America
Material: Goat Horn Animal, Material: Iron Metal, Process: Carved, Process: Riveted
Date made: Before 01/1952
Donated: 1952
On display
null
Accession number: 1952.2.70
2023-03-31T06:21:21.493
[ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sort": "11" } ]
[ { "association": null, "certainty": "uncertain", "place": "Northern America > North America > Canada", "region": null, "sort": "1" }, { "association": null, "certainty": "uncertain", "place": "Northern America > North America > United States of America", "region": null, "...
[ { "certainty": null, "culturalGroup": "Native American", "culturalGroupHierarchy": " -> Native American", "id": "26031", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Goat Horn Animal", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Iron Metal", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": null, "processIndex": "Carve...
[ { "id": "54444", "identifier": "PRM_RS316679_1952.0002.70.jpg", "irn": "316679", "isPublished": "Yes", "mimeType": "image", "path": "", "ranking": "5", "resourceSpaceId": "316679", "rights": null } ]
[ { "certaintyBottomField": null, "dateText": "Donated 1952", "from": "1952", "fromYear": "1952", "preview": "Donated: 1952", "sort": "1", "toYear": "1952", "type": "Donated" } ]
[ { "class": "Food and Drink" }, { "class": "Figure" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Spoon", "sort": "1" }, { "keyword": "Food Accessory", "sort": "3" }, { "keyword": "Animal Figure", "sort": "2" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By January 1952", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "01/1952", "period": null, "to": null } ]
null
null
[ { "id": "88022" }, { "id": "88023" } ]
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sor...
1952.2.70
Black horn spoon: bowl with brown patterning, rivetted to a handle carved with totemic designs. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 14/3/2006]
false
null
-> Native American
Length: max 195 mm, Width: max 49 mm
null
Related Documents File [1951.2 and 1951.6] - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [G...
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-25980
catalogue
Objects
25,980
1952.0002.6
1952.2.6
Object
yes
1
Bag made of an animal's bladder, decorated with blue and black beads, sinew sewn; containing dyed porcupine quills.
Ethnography
Northern America -> North America -> Canada, Northern America -> North America -> United States of America
Material: Bead, Material: Animal Sinew, Material: Quill, Material: Animal Bladder, Material: Pigment, Process: Quillwork, Process: Beadwork, Process: Dyed
Date made: 1896
Donated: 1952
On display
null
Accession number: 1952.2.6
2024-05-08T08:53:54.412
[ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sort": "11" } ]
[ { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": "Northern America > North America > Canada", "region": null, "sort": "1" }, { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": "Northern America > North America > United States of America", "region": null, "sort": "2" }...
[ { "certainty": null, "culturalGroup": "Native American", "culturalGroupHierarchy": " -> Native American", "id": "26031", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Bead", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Animal Sinew", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Quill", "processIndex": null, "ty...
[ { "id": "105322", "identifier": "PRM_RS395321_1952.0002.6.jpg", "irn": "395321", "isPublished": "Yes", "mimeType": "image", "path": "", "ranking": "5", "resourceSpaceId": "395321", "rights": null } ]
[ { "certaintyBottomField": null, "dateText": "Donated 1952", "from": "1952", "fromYear": "1952", "preview": "Donated: 1952", "sort": "1", "toYear": "1952", "type": "Donated" } ]
[ { "class": "Bag" }, { "class": "Technique" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Bag", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By 1952", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1896", "period": null, "to": null } ]
null
null
[ { "id": "88022" }, { "id": "88023" } ]
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sor...
1952.2.6
Bag made of an animal's bladder, decorated with blue and black beads, sinew sewn; containing dyed porcupine quills.
false
null
-> Native American
Length: max 260 mm
null
Related Documents File [1951.2 and 1951.6] - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [G...
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
prm-object-24771
catalogue
Objects
24,771
1951.0002.20
1951.2.20
Object
yes
1
Hide pouch, decorated with woven quillwork and bead tassels, with 3 carrying strings of plaited quillwork. [ZM 3/2/2005]
Ethnography
Northern America -> North America -> Canada, North of Great Lakes East of Lake Winnipeg Red River Colony
Material: Animal Hide Skin, Material: Bead, Material: Quill, Process: Quillwork, Process: Woven, Process: Plaited
Date made: Circa 1800-1850
Donated: 1951
null
null
Accession number: 1951.2.20 Other numbers: WHMM no. 74827
2023-03-31T06:07:53.043
[ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sort": "11" } ]
[ { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": "Northern America > North America > Canada", "region": null, "sort": "1" }, { "association": null, "certainty": null, "place": null, "region": "North of Great Lakes East of Lake Winnipeg Red River Colony", "sort": "50"...
[ { "certainty": "uncertain", "culturalGroup": "Nehiyawak", "culturalGroupHierarchy": "Subarctic -> Nehiyawak", "id": "26100", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Animal Hide Skin", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Bead", "processIndex": null, "type": "Material" }, { "certainty": null, "materialIndex": "Quill", "processIndex": null, ...
[ { "id": "114262", "identifier": "PRM_RS396046_1951.0002.20.jpg", "irn": "396046", "isPublished": "Yes", "mimeType": "image", "path": "", "ranking": null, "resourceSpaceId": "396046", "rights": null } ]
[ { "certaintyBottomField": null, "dateText": "Donated 1951", "from": "1951", "fromYear": "1951", "preview": "Donated: 1951", "sort": "1", "toYear": "1951", "type": "Donated" } ]
[ { "class": "Bag" }, { "class": "Trade" } ]
[ { "keyword": "Bag", "sort": "1" } ]
[ { "certainty": null, "date": "By 1929", "sort": "1" } ]
null
null
null
[ { "from": "1800", "period": null, "to": "1850" } ]
null
null
[ { "id": "88022" }, { "id": "88023" } ]
null
prm
Object
{ "persons": [ { "certainty": null, "id": "16004", "primaryName": "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum", "role": "PRM source", "sort": "101" }, { "certainty": null, "id": "53714", "primaryName": "Unknown Collector", "role": "Field collector", "sor...
1951.2.20
Hide pouch, decorated with woven quillwork and bead tassels, with 3 carrying strings of plaited quillwork. [ZM 3/2/2005]
false
null
Subarctic -> Nehiyawak, uncertain
Length: max 536 mm incl. straps
null
Related Documents File - Letter from E. Ashworth Underwood [Director, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum] to T. K. Penniman dated 30 January, 1951, inviting the Pitt Rivers Museum to send a representative to select items from the Wellcome collection, housed temporarily at the British Museum. [GI 4/2/2002] Iden...
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
null
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license: cc-by-nc-4.0 task_categories: - image-classification - visual-question-answering tags: - museums - cultural-heritage - wellcome-collection - anthropology - dispersed-collections size_categories: - 10K<n<100K

Dataset Card for Pitt Rivers Museum - Sir Henry Wellcome Collection

Dataset Summary

This dataset contains approximately 14,000 object records from the Pitt Rivers Museum (University of Oxford) that are associated with the Sir Henry Wellcome collection. Following Wellcome's death, his vast historical medical and ethnographic museum was dispersed to institutions worldwide; the Pitt Rivers Museum was a major recipient of this dispersal.

The dataset includes deeply nested JSON metadata capturing the museum's complete catalogue entries—including provenances, material/process descriptions, and cultural groups—alongside hosted images of the objects where available.

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

Each record represents a physical museum object. A typical instance includes:

  • image: A PIL.Image.Image object (if an image is available in the PRM database).
  • id: The unique PRM object identifier (e.g., prm-object-24905).
  • recordTitle & recordSubtitle: The primary classification and descriptive summary of the item.
  • longDescription: Detailed physical descriptions and condition notes.
  • persons: A list of dictionaries detailing associated individuals and organizations (e.g., "Wellcome Historical Medical Museum").
  • geographicalProvenance: A nested list detailing the location hierarchy of the object's origin.
  • materialAndProcess: A nested list indicating materials (e.g., "Wood") and manufacturing processes.
  • researchAndResponses: Notes containing contextual research, indigenous community feedback, and historical documentation.

Data Fields

Because this dataset extracts the raw JSON response from the PRM catalogue API, it preserves the rich, deeply nested structure of standard GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) digital infrastructure.

Key fields include:

  • id (string)
  • recordType (string)
  • collection (string)
  • acquisitionDateVirtualField (string)
  • objectNumbersAll (string) - Often contains the original Wellcome accession numbers (e.g., R10473/1936).
  • image (image)

Dataset Creation

Source Data

Data was programmatically retrieved from the Pitt Rivers Museum Collections API in July 2026. The query explicitly targeted records containing the keyword "Wellcome".

Known Limitations

  • Image Availability: Not all records possess digitized photographs. Records without a digitized asset will have None in the image field.
  • Metadata Density: Because this dataset merges both the search index summary and the deep item-level metadata, some fields may be empty arrays ([]) depending on the completeness of the PRM's cataloging for that specific item.

Considerations for Using the Data

Ethical and Cultural Considerations

This dataset contains ethnographic objects and cultural heritage materials. The researchAndResponses field frequently contains important contextual updates from indigenous delegates and source communities. Users of this dataset should be mindful that legacy museum classifications (recordTitle, culturalGroups) may contain outdated or colonial terminology, which the museum is actively working to update.

Licensing

Users must adhere to the Pitt Rivers Museum's terms of use regarding digital catalogue data and image reproduction. Images are generally provided for non-commercial, academic, and research purposes.

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