Beater with a paddle-shaped blade, long handle and decorated with burnt lines and bands. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 28/2/2006]

Collection type: Object
Description: Beater with a paddle-shaped blade, long handle and decorated with burnt lines and bands. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 28/2/2006]
Geographical reference: Congo, Democratic Republic of
Africa > Central Africa > Congo, Democratic Republic of
Person: Field collector Samuel William Pring; PRM source Katherine Mary Maybury; PRM source A.W.S. Pring
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1920
Date collected: 1919 - 1920
Acquisition information: Donated: 1961
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Process Burnt, Process Decorated, Process Carved, Process Pyroengraved Pokerwork
Dimensions: Width: max 82 mm, Length: max 751 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1961.1.77
Research and responses: Related Documents File - Letters, dated 2 October 1960 - 8 January 1961, from the donor regarding the donation of a collection made in the Belgian Congo and Australasia by her father S.W. Pring " in the years 1919 - 20... [he] returned with a collection of native weapons, ornaments, etc., and a diary." [EB 19/2/2002]
See also 1961.78 and .79 [JP 2/10/2000]