- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Shoulder yoke consisting of two curved pieces of bamboo, perforated and joined together by a twisted bark fibre cord, with a forehead-band of plaited cane strip. [JC [OPS Move] 4/1/2017]
- Long description
- Shoulder yoke. It has two curved pieces of bamboo, mainly rectangular in cross section but shaped to a sub-triangular cross-section after the curve and squared-off at the end. The curved sections are tubular and through these cords of twisted bark fibre are threaded, joined by a forehead-band of plaited cane strip. A similar twisted bark-fibre cord is threaded through perforations at the base of the bamboo, joining them together. [JC [OPS Move] 4/1/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Bago [Pegu] Division Taungoo [Toungoo] Hills
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1934
- Date collected
- By 1934 [By 1931 ?*]
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1934
- Materials and processes
- Material Cane Plant, Material Bamboo Root Plant, Material Bark Fibre Plant, Material String, Process Perforated, Process Bent, Process Knotted, Process Plaited
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 182 mm, Width: max 356 mm, Length: max 535 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1934.81.71
- Research and responses
Note that 'Bkek' is a mis-rendering of 'Brek', a hill Karen group found around Toungoo, especially to the east of it. [SHD 7/2/2001]
It is likely that this was collected at source by Green. [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: Transport and Travel, Animal Gear, Cordage, Carrying Device, Agricultural Tool