- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Saddle blanket for a mule.
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1909-1914
- Date collected
- ?1909-1914
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1945
- Materials and processes
- Material Velvet Textile, Material Silk Textile Animal, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Process Embroidered, Process Padded, Process Woven
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1945.9.47
- Research and responses
For a brief account of the collections donated to the PRM by Wilfred Thiesiger, see 'An Incidental Collection: Objects Donated by Wilfred Thesiger to the Pitt Rivers Museum', by Jeremy Coote, in Wilfred Thesiger in Africa, edited by Christopher Morton and Philip N. Grover (London: Harper Press, 2010), pp. 116-26. [JC 21 12 2010]
Search terms: Animal Gear, Textile, Saddle Blanket, Horse Accessory
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