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2000.23.13

Figure of a giraffe. Made from black and white wool which has been bound around a wire frame. [MdeA 23/6/2000]

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2000.23.13

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Collection type
Object
Description
Figure of a giraffe. Made from black and white wool which has been bound around a wire frame. [MdeA 23/6/2000]
Geographical reference
Ethiopia
Africa > Eastern Africa > Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
Date / Period
Date made: Before 25/03/2000
Date collected
25 March 2000
Acquisition information
Donated: 09/06/2000
Materials and processes
Material Wool Yarn Animal, Material Metal Wire, Process Bound, Process Covered, Process Plaited
Dimensions
Height: max 352 mm, Width 180 mm Approx, Height 75 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 2000.23.13
Research and responses

Other information taken from donor's original list in RDF - 'Giraffe (model). Creator: Women employees of the Birhan Taye Work Group. Location of manufacture: Addis Ababa. Location of purchase: Evangelical Church Bazaar, Addis Ababa. (held the last Saturday of every month). The Birhan Taye Work Group, an NGO, also makes wool lions, horses, cows, antelopes, and other animals, as well as selling textiles, etc. (see attached flyer). Primarily consumers are ex-pats and tourists.' [MdeA 23/6/2000]

Additional Information supplied by donor. See RDF. - 'The objects were collected during a preliminary research trip I made to Ethiopia from February to April 2000. The purpose of the trip was to identify a research project and site for my D.Phil. fieldwork in Social Anthropology. The objects were collected because I found them unique, unusual, academically interesting, etc. I had once noticed that the Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum (PRM) does not have very many Ethiopian objects, and I wanted somehow to ‘correct’ this gap (as I perceived it). I was especially interested in obtaining, for the Museum, a painting of the Queen of Sheba-King Solomon legend because I had originally planned to write my D.Phil. on this legend, which is a dominant theme in Ethiopian popular painting. There was no real rhyme or reason in choosing the objects collected, and the staff at the PRM did not provided me with a ‘shopping list’ of any kind. In fact, they had no knowledge that I was collecting objects during the trip; I merely hoped that the collection would prove to be useful and/or acceptable addition to the PRM Collection. ... I don’t have full details for every item because some information was unavailable. All prices are listed in Ethiopian birr (each birr = 100 centime); at the time, the dollar could buy approximately 8.1-8.5 birr.' [MdeA 23/6/2000]

This object was purchased for 18 birr. [MdeA 23/6/2000]

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