1934.81.21.1

Collection type

Object

Description

Crossbow with stout straight cane bow [.1], twisted fibre cord [.2] and a wooden stock with a cane trigger [.3]. [ASh [OPS move] 18/7/2017]

Long description

Crossbow with stout straight cane bow [.1], twisted fibre cord [.2] and a wooden stock with a cane trigger [.3]. Bow is made of a stout strip of bamboo, with a blackened surface. The bow is notched at either tip and has the string still attached [1934.81.21 .2]. The cane strip used as a grip is currently missing. [ASh [OPS move] 18/7/2017]

Geographical reference

Myanmar (Burma)

Asia > South-eastern Asia > Myanmar (Burma)

Bago [Pegu] Division Papun

Cultural groups

Paku Karen (Pakenyo (Sgaw) Kayin) Karenni

Person

Field collector James Henry Green

PRM source James Henry Green

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1934

Date collected

By 1934 [By 1931 ?*]

Acquisition information

Donated: 1934

Materials and processes

Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Perforated

Dimensions

Depth: max 37 mm, Width: max 42 mm, Length: max 1116 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1934.81.21.1

Research and responses

It is most likely that Green collected this item at source. [SHD 5/2/2001]

At first it seemed to SHD that this collection may have some to Oxford as early as the end of 1930, and thus have been collected in Burma before that time. One suspected this because of it originally having been listed with the G D Walker collection (see comment at the beginning of the accession book entry, above). The Walker collection (1931.87) was accessioned in 1931 but sent from Assam, India by Walker before 11 November 1930 (see his letter to this effect in Related Documents File). Included in this Green collection (1934.81) however, are items indicated by a related document to have been collected in 1931 by Green from W. ?Biber (1934.81.9, 12, 31-51 & 82). In practice, the Green collection may simply have been entered in the same notebook as the Walker collection because there remained pages to be filled in that book - i.e. there may or may not be a substantive connection between the two collections. [SHD 30/1/2001]

The objects referred to by the single entry in accession book IX were given the retrospective number 1934.55 in that accession book. Those objects are entered individually in the Green collection catalogue. In this volume, the collection had been given the retrospective accession number 1934.81, and this is the number used. [CW 6/4/2000]

Search terms: Archery Weapon, Cordage, Hunting, Cross Bow, Trap, Hunting accessory