Rhinoceros hide whip. [MJD 31/10/2012]

Collection type: Object
Description: Rhinoceros hide whip. [MJD 31/10/2012]
Long description: Rhinoceros hide whip. The whip is straight. The handle is covered with dark red chequer woven hide. The end of the handle has a plaited loop. [MJD 31/10/2012]
Geographical reference: Somalia
Africa > Eastern Africa > Somalia; Afmadow
Cultural groups: Somali; Daarood; Ogaden
Person: Field collector Diana Powell-Cotton; PRM source Diana Powell-Cotton
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1935
Date collected: 1934 - 1935
Acquisition information: Donated: 1936
Materials and processes: Material Rhino Skin Animal, Material Animal Hide Skin, Process Woven, Process Covered, Process Plaited
Dimensions: Length: max 798 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1936.16.7 Other numbers: 751
Research and responses: According to the Ethnologue Online, Daarood is a large clan family in northeast Somalia and the Ogaadeen region of Ethiopia, extreme southern Somalia and northeast Kenya which speaks several different dialects. Ogaadeen is the largest clan within the Daarood clan family, living in eastern Ethiopia, extreme southern Somalia and northeast Kenya. [CW 10/5/2000]

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