French Polynesia. Ethnographic archive compiled by Katherine and William Scoresby Routledge, 1921-3
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[French Polynesia]. Small ethnographic archive compiled by Katherine and William Scoresby Routledge, c.1921-3, comprising:
?Rapa & Tuamotu? [cover-title], cloth-bound notebook, pencilled manuscript notes on approx. 80 pp., containing information on inhabitants, customs, legends, history, geography, toponyms, and a few sketches, 4to (21 x 17 cm)
?Rapa folk tales? [cover-title], 20 leaves of lined note-paper, manuscript and typescript, string-bound, containing translated transcripts of Rapa folk tales (note on index page: ?Tales told by Mazazza & trans by Joan?), 4to (28 x 21.5 cm)
[Panorama of Rapa-Iti looking north-west], pencil and grisaille watercolour on 2 conjoined sheets of wove paper, pencilled captions on sheet of tissue-paper tipped along bottom edge (15 x 70 cm), and a similar panorama, apparently preparatory, in 2 sections (each 12.5 x 35.5 cm),
together with other items including printed chart of Rapa Iti with place names added in manuscript (Rapa Island, 2nd edition, Washington DC: Hydographic Office, 1916), offprint of Katherine and Scoresby Routledges? paper Notes on some Archaeological Remains in the Society and Austral Islands (London: Royal Anthropological Institute, 1921; contains a reproduction of the above panorama), and further typescript and manuscript notes on Rapa Iti and environs (including some from correspondents), most material docketed in pencil by the same hand (probably Katherine's)
(Qty: 1 folder)
Katherine Routledge (née Pease) and her husband William Scoresby Routledge are best remembered for attempting the first methodical archaeological survey of Easter Island (Rapa Nui), in 1913-15, described in Katherine's account The Mystery of Easter Island (1919). This material appears to derive from their second expedition to the Pacific, in 1921-3, during which they visited Mangareva, Raivaevae, and Rapa Iti. The notebooks and most of the other manuscript material are possibly in Katherine's hand rather than her husband's. An extensive archive of similar material from the Routledges' travels is now held by the Royal Geographical Society (reference WSR).
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Sold for £1,550
[French Polynesia]. Small ethnographic archive compiled by Katherine and William Scoresby Routledge, c.1921-3, comprising:
?Rapa & Tuamotu? [cover-title], cloth-bound notebook, pencilled manuscript notes on approx. 80 pp., containing information on inhabitants, customs, legends, history, geography, toponyms, and a few sketches, 4to (21 x 17 cm)
?Rapa folk tales? [cover-title], 20 leaves of lined note-paper, manuscript and typescript, string-bound, containing translated transcripts of Rapa folk tales (note on index page: ?Tales told by Mazazza & trans by Joan?), 4to (28 x 21.5 cm)
[Panorama of Rapa-Iti looking north-west], pencil and grisaille watercolour on 2 conjoined sheets of wove paper, pencilled captions on sheet of tissue-paper tipped along bottom edge (15 x 70 cm), and a similar panorama, apparently preparatory, in 2 sections (each 12.5 x 35.5 cm),
together with other items including printed chart of Rapa Iti with place names added in manuscript (Rapa Island, 2nd edition, Washington DC: Hydographic Office, 1916), offprint of Katherine and Scoresby Routledges? paper Notes on some Archaeological Remains in the Society and Austral Islands (London: Royal Anthropological Institute, 1921; contains a reproduction of the above panorama), and further typescript and manuscript notes on Rapa Iti and environs (including some from correspondents), most material docketed in pencil by the same hand (probably Katherine's)
(Qty: 1 folder)
Katherine Routledge (née Pease) and her husband William Scoresby Routledge are best remembered for attempting the first methodical archaeological survey of Easter Island (Rapa Nui), in 1913-15, described in Katherine's account The Mystery of Easter Island (1919). This material appears to derive from their second expedition to the Pacific, in 1921-3, during which they visited Mangareva, Raivaevae, and Rapa Iti. The notebooks and most of the other manuscript material are possibly in Katherine's hand rather than her husband's. An extensive archive of similar material from the Routledges' travels is now held by the Royal Geographical Society (reference WSR).
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