S&SWM accession number

Description from S&SWM catalogue

CUL catalogue number

Description from CUL catalogue

1B1.1

Webster 1897 New Guinea Club with stone head

Possibly one of Add.9455vol6_p1976 /4 - 5

16 August 1897 New Guinea stone-headed Clubs D E and H Bt of Webster

1B1.2

Webster 1897 p. 2065 New Guinea Wooden club

The page number is wrong or the date does not match an entry in the second collection catalogue

Impossible to match, but there are entries that could match depending upon which information is correct

1B1.3

Poisoned fish spear / arrow Cabool, Polynesia volume 4 p 1327 presented by Mrs Learmouth

? One of Add.9455vol4_p1327 /1 012

Arrows from Cabool. Presented by Mrs Learmouth Hanford

1B1.4

Fish spear Polynesia

No fishing spears from Polynesia are specifically identified in the 2nd collection catalogue

1B1.5

Fish spear Polynesia

See above

1B1.6

Spear with chipped obsidian head Admiralty Island

? Add.9455vol8_p2106 /1 or Add.9455vol8_p2107 /1-2 or Add.9455vol8_p2108 /1-2 or Add.9455vol8_p2109 /1

?1898 Admiralty Island Bought Webster 1898 Actual length 6’ or Admiralty Island Bought Webster 1898 Actual length 6’ 6” or Admiralty Island Bought Webster 1898 Actual length 6’9” or Admiralty Isles Bought Webster 1897 Actual length 7’ 5 1/2”

1B1.7

Spear with chipped obsidian head Admiralty Island

See 1B1.6

See 1B1.6

1B1.8

Spear with chipped obsidian head Admiralty Island volume 8 p2107-8 Webster 1898

Add.9455vol8_p2107 /1-2

Admiralty Island Bought Webster 1898 Actual length 5’11” or Admiralty Island Bought Webster 1898 Actual length 5’ 3 1/2”

1B1.9

Fish spear Polynesia Sir Charles Hardy Isle Webster 1898 vol 8 p244

Add.9455vol8_p2114 /1

Sir Chas Hardy Isle Bought Webster 1898Actual length 4’ 11 1/2”

1B1.10

Blue painted fish spear Polynesia vol 8 p 2114

Add.9455vol8_p2114 /2

Sir Chas Hardy Isle Bought Webster 1898Actual length 5’ 3 1/4”

1B1.11

Brown painted fish spear Polynesia vol 8 p. 2104-2118 Bought Webster 1897/8

Add.9455vol8_p2118 /1 or 2

Duke of York Isl Bought Webster 1898Actual length 9’ 2 1/2” Solomon Island Bought Webster 1898Actual length 9’ 5 1/2”

1B1.12

Fiji fish spear bought Lawrence Dec 1896

? Add.9455vol8_p2112 /7

5 of these Fiji arrows Bought Lawrence Dec 1896

1B1.13

Webster May 1899 German New Guinea Carved bone dagger vol 6 p. 1963

Add.9455vol6_p1963 /1 or 2, the other was sold at Sotheby’s March 1981

17 May 1899Bt of Webster, Bicester... [1 of] Bone daggers German New Guinea

1B1.14

New Guinea wooden sword 1918 (NB this might post-date Pitt-Rivers)

? Add.9455vol6_p1977 /1

24 November 1896Bought of Fenton & Sons, 11 New Oxford Street, London ... Model of an European sword in scabbard, carved in wood and painted. Ornamented with chevrons filled with chevrons New Guinea

1B2.14.1

Sharks tooth knife with painted wooden haft and chain New Guinea

?Add.9455vol1_p17 /8

13 May 1882 Purchased of James Macklin 7 Catherine Street, Salisbury ... Ivory Knife New Guinea

1B2.14.2

Polished stone axe in wooden haft New Guinea

? Add.9455vol3_p1094 /1 or one of Add.9455vol6_p1980 /2-4 or Add.9455vol6_p1981 /1-3 or

Add.9455vol8_p2202 /1

20 October 1894 [Bought of Mr E.B. Savage, The Square, Ringwood ... New Guinea Coll’n Mr Savage made his collection in New Guinea, at the time he was a missionary there] ...New Guinea Coll: (Savage) ... (No XXII) A stone axe from Suan. “this is used for any chopping purposes” (Savage) OR B-t of W. Webster ... [1 of] New Guinea axes and adzes or New Guinea stone axe Webster

1B2.15

Polished stone axe in wooden haft New Guinea

See 1B2.14.2

See 1B2.14.2

1B2.17

Decorated wooden boomerang ?Queensland

Add.9455vol8_p2099 /6 or 7

Two of these Made by Aboriginals Natives of Listowel Downs Western Queensland Australia

:1B2.18

Sling stone New Guinea

?No match

There does not appear to be a matching object in the 2nd collection catalogue, the only possibllity is Add.9455vol2_p720 /6 Bt of H.E. Abrams 44 Broad Street, Oxford ... Sling belt and stones from the Fiji Islands

1B2.19

Ground shell adze in wooden haft Aua Island, New Guinea

?No match

This item may have come from George Pitt-Rivers and not be from the 2nd collection

1B3.53

Chisel made from dugong tusk New Guinea

Add.9455vol3_p1088 /2

20 October 1894 [Bought of Mr E.B. Savage, The Square, Ringwood ... New Guinea Coll’n Mr Savage made his collection in New Guinea, at the time he was a missionary there] ...New Guinea Coll: (Savage) ... (No XLIV) The tusks of a Dugong from Parem

1B3.54

Chisel made from dugong tusk New Guinea

Add.9455vol3_p1088 /2

20 October 1894 [Bought of Mr E.B. Savage, The Square, Ringwood ... New Guinea Coll’n Mr Savage made his collection in New Guinea, at the time he was a missionary there] ...New Guinea Coll: (Savage) ... (No XLIV) The tusks of a Dugong from Parem

1B3.55

Polished stone axe New Guinea Dr Comrie RN

No match

It is possible that this item could predate 1885 and be listed as an unfound founding collection item

1B3.56

Polished stone axe New Guinea Dr Comrie RN

No match

It is possible that this item could predate 1885 and be listed as an unfound founding collection item

1B3.57

Polished stone axe Auckland New Zealand Mrs Egell [sic] Hunt Lawrence 1898 p. 2218

Add.9455vol8_p2218 /2

Auckland New Zealand Mrs Edgell Hunt col. Larwnc [sic] 1898

1B3.58

Polished stone axe Auckland New Zealand Mrs Egell [sic] Hunt Lawrence 1898 p. 2219

?Add.9455vol8_p2219 /1 or 2

Auckland New Zealand Mrs Edgell Hunt col. Larwnc [sic] 1898

1B3.59

Polished stone axe Halfway Bush Southland New Zealand p 2218

Add.9455vol8_p2218 /1

May 1899 Found at Half Way Bush Southland New ZealandHyams May 1899 £1.8.0

1B3.60

Polished stone axe New Caledonia Lawrence June 1899 vol 9 p. 2343

Add.9455vol9_p2343 /18

Stone celt New Caledonia June 1899 Lawrence

1B3.61

Polished stone axe New Caledonia rectangular section

There does not appear to be a match in the 2nd collection catalogue

There does not appear to be a match in the 2nd collection catalogue

1B3.62

Tanged obsidian implement Easter Island

Add.9455vol3_p889 /3 or 4

March 1893 Miss Cutter, 35a Gt Russell Street, London ...2 Obsidian Axes Lengths 3 1/2 & 3 1/4 ins from Easter island £1

1B3.63

Tanged obsidian implement Easter Island Cutter 15 April 1893 vol 3 p. 900 £1.5.0

Add.9455vol3_p900 /15

15 April 1893 Bought of Miss E. Cutter 35a Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury Obsidian implement from Easter Island Total width 5 ins

1B3.64

Tanged obsidian implement Easter Island

Add.9455vol3_p889 /3 or 4

March 1893 Miss Cutter, 35a Gt Russell Street, London ...2 Obsidian Axes Lengths 3 1/2 & 3 1/4 ins from Easter island £1

1B3.65

Obsidian spearhead Admirality Island

See 1B1.6

See 1B1.6

1B3.66

New Guinea polished stone axe Dr Comrie RN

No match

It is possible that this item could predate 1885 and be listed as an unfound founding collection item

1B3.67

New Guinea polished stone axe Dr Comrie RN Woodlark Island

No match

It is possible that this item could predate 1885 and be listed as an unfound founding collection item

1B3.68

Fiji polished stone axe Lawrence Nov 1898 vol 9 p. 2343

Add.9455vol9_p2343 /21-22

Stone celt Fiji Nov 1898 Lawrence

1B3.69

Fiji polished stone axe Lawrence Nov 1898 vol 9 p. 2343

Add.9455vol9_p2343 /21-22

Stone celt Fiji Nov 1898 Lawrence

1B3.71

Chipped stone axe Samoa

? Add.9455vol1_p167 /1 or 2

10 February 18833 Chert Implements from Upolu Samoa (South Pacific)

1B3.72

Polished stone axe Samoa June 1877

? Add.9455vol1_p167 /1 or 2

10 February 18833 Chert Implements from Upolu Samoa (South Pacific)

1G.2

Storage jar New Guinea

There are too many possible matches

There are too many possible matches

1H.3

Fish spear Polynesia

No fishing spears from Polynesia are specifically identified in the 2nd collection catalogue

1H.4

Obsidian spearhead Admiralty Islands

See 1B1.6

See 1B1.6

4.334

Spherical stone pestle or local pounder Tahiti

Add.9455vol8_p2138 /2

Tahiti Pounder Bought Webster 1897.

This is the item put up for sale at the Sotheby’s, London sale on 26 November 1979, described as being the property of Stella Pitt-Rivers from the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham: 'Lot 49 A Tahitian black basalt stone poi pounder, of circular form tapering towards the T shaped handle, with twin grooves on either side and originally with a flange at either end 6 3/8 in (16 cm) For a related item see Barrow p. 25 fig 23 item 6 [illustrated]

4.417

Two bundles of longbows decorated with plant fibre bindings and bamboo bowstrings (6 bows and 5 bowstrings). Unknown provenance but one bow has inscription Fiji Bow bt of Lawrence Dec 1896

Add.9455vol8_p2111 /3

Fiji Bow Bought Lawrence Dec 1896