Catalogue of ethnographical specimens : from Australia, New Zealand, Hervey Island, Marquisas, New Guinea, New Ireland, Tahiti, Samoa, Tonga, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, Admiralty Islands, and other parts of Polynesia, Benin City, and other parts of Africa, various parts of North and South American, the Malay Archipelago, and other localities

Bernard Halliday

1911

English

Bib record

Further copies and editions under 41113, 084924, 079297-079299.

Vol.1 Catalogues 19-23.
Vol.2 Catalogues 24-27.
Vol.3 Catalogues 28-31.

William Downing Webster was born in 1868 in Greenwich, the son of Robert Burrow, potato dealer and Sarah Elizabeth Webster. 'During the early 1890's Webster became an ethnographic collector and dealer. He travelled the country buying from auction houses, direct from collectors and members of the armed forces recently returned from abroad. On the 14 May 1891 he married Agnes Harrison of Bowness, Cumbria. They continued to be based in Lancashire and had 2 daughters, Phyllis and Doris, both born in the 1890's. Webster brought and sold extensively; contributing to many of the major collections both in Britain and around the world. In 1895 he began to issue ethnographic catalogues, initially every two months, later changing to quarterly publications. 17 were produced each with illustrations; later featured photographs taken by Robert Burrow Webster, possibly his brother. A total of 31 catalogues were produced. These were later bound into 5 volumes.

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