- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Sample of string made from fibre.
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector E.C. Allen
- Field collector Universities' Mission to Central Africa
- PRM source Marion R.P. Irvine
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1955
- Date collected
- 1955
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1956
- Materials and processes
- Material String Plant
- Dimensions
- Length: max 400 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1956.6.22.4 Other PRM accession number: 1956.6.22c
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