Two Curators, a Classification of Borneo Swords and Some Swords in the Sarawak Museum Collection
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THE SARAWAK MUSEUM JOURNAL |
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Title :
Two Curators, a Classification of Borneo Swords and Some Swords in the Sarawak Museum Collection |
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Author :
Michael Heppell |
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Abstract:
The Sarawak Museum collection o Dayak swords is central to the accepted classification of Borneo swords. Information in the Museum enabled two Museum curators, Robert Walter Campell Shelford and Edward H. Banks to write articles on the classification of swords in use in Sarawak. Shelford, an entomologist by training and interest, became Curator of the Sarawak Museum at the young age of 25 in 1897. His choice as curator might well have been influenced by the Second Rajah, Charles Brooke’s regard for the work of the great biologist and evolutionist Alfred Russell Wallace who had done his pioneering research in Sarawak in the period 1854 to 1856. Shelford held the post of curator until 1905, when he returned to England to take up a position as an assistant curator at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, housed in the same general building as the Pitt Rivers Museum.
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| DOI: XXXX |
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How to cite:
Michael Heppell. (2011). Two Curators, a Classification of Borneo Swords and Some Swords in the Sarawak Museum Collection. The Sarawak Museum Journal, LXVIII (89): 1-40 |
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