Bone lace-making bobbin stained red, with bead weights strung on wire at one end. [FB 10/02/2015]

Collection type: Object
Description: Bone lace-making bobbin stained red, with bead weights strung on wire at one end. [FB 10/02/2015]
Long description: Bone lace-making bobbin stained red, with bead weights strung on wire at one end. The bobbin is carved in bone and decorated with incised bands stained red. One end of the bobbin has been perforated with a small hole through which a length of metal wire has been threaded. Seven glass beads have been strung to the wire, two yellow, three pink and two white. [FB 10/02/2015]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Buckinghamshire
Cultural groups: English
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Amy Jane Nevell; PRM source Amy Jane Nevell
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1942
Date collected: By 1942
Acquisition information: Donated: 1942
Materials and processes: Material Bone, Material Pigment, Material Bead, Material Metal Wire, Process Stained, Process Carved, Process Incised, Process Strung, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Length: max 125 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.6.11

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