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Human Remains from Australia & Oceania Human Remains from Australia and Oceania in the Pitt Rivers Museum Accession Number Description Continent Country Region Cultural Group Acquired PRM Source 1900.55.294 Ceremonial object, a shoe of emu feathers and hair. Australia Australia; Northern Territory North of the MacDonnell Ranges ?Arrernte Donated 1900 Robert Francis Wilkins 1897.36.53 Head ornament of strands of human hair with small lumps of ochre. Australia Australia; Northern Territory Arrernte Donated September 1897 William Austin Horn 1897.36.54 Head ornament of strands of human hair. Australia Australia; Northern Territory Arrernte Donated September 1897 William Austin Horn 1903.39.4 Waist ornament of human hair string. Australia Australia; Northern Territory Arrernte Donated 1903 Walter Baldwin Spencer 1903.39.5 Waist ornament of human hair string. Australia Australia; Northern Territory Arrernte Donated 1903 Walter Baldwin Spencer 1903.39.78 Wooden ceremonial object decorated with circles and swansdown, and with string of Australia Australia; Northern Territory Arrernte Donated 1903 Walter Baldwin Spencer human hair. 1897.36.38 Girdle of strings of twisted human hair bound at each end. Australia Australia; Northern Territory Alice Springs Arrernte Donated September 1897 William Austin Horn 1903.39.1 Long wooden ceremonial object with bullroarers attached. Human hair. Australia Australia; Northern Territory Alice Springs? Arrernte Donated 1903 Walter Baldwin Spencer [1893.30.1] One of a pair of ceremonial shoes or sandals made of human hair and felted emu feathers. Australia Australia; Northern Territory Charlotte Waters Arrernte Donated 1893 4 Alfred William Howitt 1900.55.137 Painted acacia wood spear-thrower, bound with human hair coated with gum and paint, Australia Australia; Northern Territory Hugh Ranges Arrernte Donated 1900 Robert Francis Wilkins knob of gum with inset flint flake for use as a cutting tool. 1903.39.43 Bundle of eagle hawk feathers, bound together with human hair string. Australia Australia; Northern Territory of South Australia Arrernte Donated 1903 Walter Baldwin Spencer 1897.36.59 Head band of multiple strands of human hair. Australia Australia; Northern Territory MacDonnell Ranges Arrernte (Larapinta) Donated September 1897 William Austin Horn 1897.36.30 Thick cord of human hair used for carrying food bowls. Australia Australia; Northern Territory MacDonnell Ranges Arrernte or Warlpiri Donated September 1897 William Austin Horn 1897.36.29 Sling of human hair used for carrying food bowls. Australia Australia; Northern Territory MacDonnell Ranges Tempe Downs Arrernte or Warlpiri Donated September 1897 William Austin Horn 1900.55.43 Dagger made from kangaroo leg bone with a grip of bound sinew and string of human hair. Australia Australia; South Australia western Victoria Ninety Mile Desert Bodaruwidj Donated 1900 Robert Francis Wilkins 1903.39.41 .1 Flaked stone knife hafted with resin, with a length of twisted hair string attached to other Australia Australia; Northern Territory Kaytetye Donated 1903 Walter Baldwin Spencer end of resin. [There is a sheath for this knife, see .2]. 1921.49.5 Belt made of twisted human hair strings. Australia Australia; Northern Territory Darwin Larrakia ? Donated September 1921 Charles Steele Murchison Bompas 1889.34.134 Male human skull. Australia Australia; Erub Queensland Torres Strait Islands Meriam Mir Donated December 1889 Alfred Cort Haddon 1926.77.2 .1 - .2 Belt [.1] consisting of a ring of human hair string with a bundle of string wound around it at Australia Australia; Western Australia Ngarinyin Purchased August 1926 Emile Louis Bruno Clement one point. A length of string [.2] has come off. 1900.55.292 Vessel comprising a human calvaria with wide opening, burnt at edges. Australia Australia; South eastern South Australia mouth of the Murray River The Ngarrindjeri Donated 1900 Robert Francis Wilkins Coorong 1901.58.15 Neck ornament of hair strings, the ends wrapped with fur strips. Australia Australia; Western Australia Nullagine district Nyamal Purchased 1901 5 Emile Louis Bruno Clement 1900.55.266 Breast pendant of carved turtle-shell in a comb-like form, with human hair cord, Australia Australia; Northern Territory Tiwi Islands; Melville Island Tiwi Donated 1900 Robert Francis Wilkins ornamented with 2 shell discs. 1917.6.4 Belt made of plaited human hair, with plant fibre ties at either end. Australia Australia; Northern Territory Tiwi Islands; Melville Island Tiwi Donated 1917 Henry Kenneth Fry 1917.6.5 Belt made of plaited human hair, with plant fibre ties at either end. Australia Australia; Northern Territory Tiwi Islands; Melville Island Tiwi Donated 1917 Henry Kenneth Fry 1917.6.6 Belt made of braided human hair, with cotton ties at either end. Australia Australia; Northern Territory Tiwi Islands; Melville Island Tiwi Donated 1917 Henry Kenneth Fry 1903.39.2 Ceremonial object containing human hair. Covered with white bird down and with owl Australia Australia; Northern Territory Warumungu Donated 1903 Walter Baldwin Spencer feathers attached to one end. 1926.70.11 Belt consisting of a thick roll of human hair string with 2 pendant valves of Meleagrina shell Australia Australia; Western Australia Kimberley District Watjarri Purchased February 1926 Emile Louis Bruno Clement engraved with geometric designs. Designs infilled with red ochre. 1926.70.10 Necklet of human hair string with pendants of dugong teeth. Australia Australia; Western Australia Kimberley district Watjarri Purchased February 1926 Emile Louis Bruno Clement 1900.55.247 Necklet, of human hair string with porcupine quills fixed to it with painted lumps of gum. Australia Australia; Western Victoria Wotjobaluk Donated 1900 Robert Francis Wilkins 1903.39.6 Pubic ornament of twisted and red ochre coated plant fibre tied at the top by two short Australia Australia; Northern Territory Gulf of Carpentaria Mcarthur River ?Borroloola Yanuwa Donated 1903 Walter Baldwin Spencer straps of twisted plant fibre [& hair]. 1924.63.16 Ring of grass wound round with human hair, worn on the head. Australia Australia; Western Australia Tableland north of Hamersley Range Yindjibarndi Purchased June 1924 Emile Louis Bruno Clement 1924.63.17 Ring of grass wound round with human hair, fitted with short radial sticks connected by Australia Australia; Western Australia Tableland north of Hamersley Range Yindjibarndi Purchased 1924 6 Emile Louis Bruno Clement human-hair strings, worn on the head. 1924.63.25 Head ornament of human hair string wound around a core of grass. Australia Australia; Western Australia Hamersley Range Yinhawangka Purchased 1924 7 Emile Louis Bruno Clement 1931.78.36 Bag of string-work and human hair, crescentic shape. Australia Australia; ?Queensland Purchased July 1931 James Thomas Hooper 1887.1.667 Specimen of human hair. Mounted behind glass in a wooden frame. Australia Australia; Cape York Peninsula Queensland Transferred 1886 Oxford University Museum of Natural History 1900.55.313 Human skull (cranium and mandible); extremely deteriorated due to illness. The cranium is Australia Australia; Eastern New South Wales Hawkesbury River Berowra Creek Donated 1900 Robert Francis Wilkins [1900.55.313 .1], and the mandible is [1900.55.313 .2]. [near Sydney] 1884.48.7 Netted forehead band, made from red string, possibly human hair at one end. Australia Australia; North Queensland Donated 1884 Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection 1900.55.204 String bag containing hair and plant fibre. Australia Australia; Northern Territory Donated 1900 Robert Francis Wilkins 1900.55.206 String bag containing brown human hair string. Australia Australia; Northern Territory Donated 1900 Robert Francis Wilkins 1900.55.215 .2 Human hair string. Contents of string bag 1900.55.215 .1 Australia Australia; Northern Territory Donated 1900 Robert Francis Wilkins 1900.55.302 Amulet consiting of a human tooth and two dog teeth set in gum; from netted bag Australia Australia; Northern Territory Donated 1900 Robert Francis Wilkins 1900.55.301, and with amulet 1900.55.303 1900.55.248 Neck-band of human hair string, wound into a thick coil with loop at one end; at other four Australia Australia; Northern Territory Sturt's Range (c. 500 miles south of Darwin) Donated 1900 Robert Francis Wilkins short lengths of string thickened and coated with gum and with remains of emu feathers. 1900.55.254 Head ornament of black human hair string. Worn at back of head with wooden fastening Australia Australia; Northern Territory Sturt's Range (c. 500 miles south of Darwin) Donated 1900 Robert Francis Wilkins pin; pin has head of red gum. 1900.55.203 Human hair string. Australia Australia; Northern Territory Wild Man River Donated 1900 Robert Francis Wilkins Page 1 of 11 Human Remains from Australia and Oceania in the Pitt Rivers Museum Accession Number Description Continent Country Region Cultural Group Acquired PRM Source 1884.106.26 Specimen of human hair. Mounted behind glass in a wooden frame. Australia Australia; Northern Territory Cobourg Peninsula Donated 1884 Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection 1884.106.28 Specimen of human hair. Mounted behind glass in a wooden frame. Australia Australia; Northern Territory Cobourg Peninsula Donated 1884 Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection 1884.106.27 Specimen of human hair. Mounted behind glass in a wooden frame. Australia Australia; Northern Territory Croker Island Donated 1884 Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection 1900.55.241 Pubic ornament of meleagrina
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