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1897.44.7

Brush made from Puffin wings for house dusting. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 14/9/2005]

1897.44.7

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Collection type
Object
Description
Brush made from Puffin wings for house dusting. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 14/9/2005]
Cultural groups
Danish
Person
Field collector Thomas Nelson Annandale
PRM source Thomas Nelson Annandale
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1897
Date collected
By 1897
Acquisition information
Donated: 1897
Materials and processes
Material Bird Feather
Dimensions
Length: max 250 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1897.44.7
Research and responses

For the donor's account of his visit to Føroyar [the Faroe Islands], see The Faroes and Iceland: Studies in Island Life, by Thomas Annandale (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905). [JC 4 12 2014]

Search terms: Tool, Furniture Dwelling, Broom

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