Wooden clothes beater. [MOBB [OPS move] 9/1/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Wooden clothes beater. [MOBB [OPS move] 9/1/2017]
Long description: Wooden clothes beater. Mangle carved from a single piece of wood; undecorated. Square block beating end, cylindrical handle with a perforation at one end. [MOBB [OPS move] 9/1/2017]
Geographical reference: Faroe Islands (Autonomous Region of Denmark)
Europe > Northern Europe > Faroe Islands (Autonomous Region of Denmark)
Cultural groups: Danish
Person: Field collector Thomas Nelson Annandale; PRM source Thomas Nelson Annandale
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1903
Date collected: August 1903
Acquisition information: Donated: 08/1903
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Height: max 31 mm, Width: max 133 mm, Length: max 340 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1903.18.3
Research and responses: In his book The Faroes and Iceland (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905), Annandale describes Tórshavn as being on the east coast opposite Naalsoe (or Needle Isle). This would seem to suggest that Naalsoe is the island now referred to as Nólsoy. [CW 15/12/99]
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]
Associated publications: Reference: The Faroes and Iceland: studies in island life, Main author: Nelson Annandale; Oxford, 1905

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