|
Date: |
|
Description: | The Baird collection represents the collecting activities of a family over three generations. Whilst the majority of the collection was collected by John Lawrence Baird (1874 - 1941), his wife Ethel Sydney Keith-Falconer seems to be a driving force behind the collection, including her own material, being donated to the Museum. In addition she also donated: a number of items which were collected by her mother Sydney Charlotte Montagu in honour of her Father Algernon Hawkins T Keith-Falconer; and her father's own collection. John Lawrence Baird was: a British Conservative politician; a Member of Parliament; the 8th Governor-General of Australia between 1925 - 1931; and first Viscount of Stonehaven 1938 - 1941. In his career he was awarded: Grand Cross of St Michael and St George; Her majesty's most Honourable Privy Council; The Distinguished Service Order; Justice of the Peace; and Deputy Lieutenant. In 1903 he served as a British representative at the court of Emperor Menlik of Ethiopia and led an expedition from Addis Ababa to Nairobi. Lord Stevenson, as he was known, provided assistance to the museum by accurately identifying some of the items now in the Museum's collection using his international contacts. His high ranking career provided the opportunity to collect throughout the world. A particularly significant item he donated is a 20ft outrigger canoe from Melanesia which has been described as "an exceptionally fine example of the art and craft of the boat builders of New Guinea".
Super collection: Marischal Museum.
Sub-collection: John Baird & Keith - Falconer.
Objects: weapons; stringed instruments; jewellery; printed articles; photographic albums; Abyssinian arms; shields; spears; standards; minute Mexican Indian toys, bats; pottery; musical instruments; lantern slides; carved wooden figures; wooden pigs; ornaments; Papuan native canoe; Japanese koto; clothing; silver articles; head-dresses; processional church cross; satchel. | Subjects: | Society Costumes and Textiles Weapons and Accessories World Culture. Photography | Temporal: | Mainly Undated 1730 - 1904 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Address: | King's College,
AB24 3FX | Identifier: | ABDUA:CLD79 | Relation: | ABDUA:CLD00 | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
pot
drum' shape (double hulled canoe)in…
-
collar
Field collector: Baird, 1st Viscount…
-
adze
Field collector: Baird, 1st Viscount…
-
-
-
bowl
Bird shape
Field collector: Baird,…
-
tool
Found with cremation burial -reburied…
-
-
-
bowl
Bird shape decoration, carved in…
|