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Santa Cruz Islands
19th century
Object Place: Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands
Dimensions
Legacy: 4 3/4 in. x 14 in.
Credit Line
Bequest of William E. Teel
Accession Number2014.213
CollectionsAfrica and Oceania
ClassificationsSculpture
InscriptionsSanta Cruz, Mrs. Edgell Hunt, Coll. LWRNC [Lawrence], 1898 / P2090
Provenance1898, acquired from the Mrs. Edgell Hunt collection, through George Fabian Lawrence (b. 1861 – d. 1939), London, by Lt.-General Augustus Henry Pitt-Rivers (b. 1827 - d. 1900), Farnham, England; transferred to the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham (Room 9, case 113); 1966, Pitt-Rivers Museum closed and collection passed by descent to Stella Howson-Clive (Pitt-Rivers), Dorset [see note]. November, 1991, sold by Channing, Dale, Throckmorton, Santa Fe, NM, to William and Bertha Teel, Marblehead, MA; 2014, bequest of William Teel to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 26, 2014)
NOTE:
Augustus Pitt-Rivers established a privately-owned museum in Dorset in 1880, where he housed acquisitions he made between 1880 and 1900. He kept several notebooks recording the collection, now held by Cambridge University. The collection passed by descent through Augustus Henry Pitt-Rivers’s son, Alexander Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, to his grandson, Captain George Pitt-Rivers (1890-1966) and his common law wife, Stella Howson-Clive (Pitt-Rivers). The museum closed in 1966 and portions of the collection were sold.
NOTE:
Augustus Pitt-Rivers established a privately-owned museum in Dorset in 1880, where he housed acquisitions he made between 1880 and 1900. He kept several notebooks recording the collection, now held by Cambridge University. The collection passed by descent through Augustus Henry Pitt-Rivers’s son, Alexander Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, to his grandson, Captain George Pitt-Rivers (1890-1966) and his common law wife, Stella Howson-Clive (Pitt-Rivers). The museum closed in 1966 and portions of the collection were sold.