- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Sling of plant-fibre string.
- Long description
- Cradle is a woven rectangle of string, cords are triple strands of string twisted together. Small loop at one end.
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Egyptian
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Possibly before 1881
- Date collected
- 3 Mar 1881
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Fibre, Process Plaited, Process Twisted
- Dimensions
- Length: max 1100 mm doubled
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.29.14 PR no.: 15/ 13084
- Research and responses
NB Pitt Rivers was in Egypt in March 1881 on a Cooks Tour, this object would have been collected then. In addition, objects with the number 13084 were possibly obtained by Pitt Rivers in Egypt in 1881 [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
1884.29.14
Sling of plant-fibre string.
1884.29.14
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