Emile Louis Bruno Clement (1844-1928), archaeologist, collector and sketcher, was born in Muskau, Prussia, in 1844. He died at Hove in Sussex on 4 August 1928, aged eighty-four, and was buried in Hove cemetery near Brighton, UK.
Clement collected ethnographic artefacts and natural history specimens from northwest Australia at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. An artist as well as an archaeologist, he drew sketches of many of the Aboriginal artefacts he collected in Australia (c.1896-1902) in order to encourage museums to buy them. A letter from Henry Balfour, curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum, to Clement, dated 4 February 1903, asks the latter’s permission to publish figures and drawings of “the pebble & sheep bone used in making the glass spearheads in W. Australia which you so kindly procured for me on one of your expeditions” (Pitt Rivers Museum).
- Writers:
- Clement, John G. F.
- Date written:
- 2011
- Last updated:
- 2011
