Netting needle, wrapped with string or cord made of twisted fibres.

Collection type: Object
Description: Netting needle, wrapped with string or cord made of twisted fibres.
Geographical reference: Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Union Territory of India)
Asia > Southern Asia > Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Union Territory of India); Andaman Islands
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Edward Horace Man; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1884
Date collected: Prior to 1884
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Bamboo Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Process Carved, Process Twisted
Dimensions: Length: max 170 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.48.32
Associated publications: JAI, 1878: 459 'Nets (Châpanga-da) in which odds-and-ends are kept Pl XII' [Taken from 'List of Andamanese and Nicobarese Implements Ornaments etc presented to Major-General Lane Fox by EH Man esq and thus described by Mr Man 18th September 1877' JAI 1882: 276 'Pô-tòkla (da) the needles used for making the various descriptions of netting Pl XXIII fig 12. They of course vary in size according to the mesh that may be required' [EH Man]. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]