- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bobbin made out of a 'shoorana' plant. Narrow tube of hollowed wood. [IL [OPS Move] 20/3/2017]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 08/02/1986
- Date collected
- 8 February 1986
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 2003
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Grooved, Process Polished, Process Hollowed
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 7 mm, Length: max 47 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2003.9.190.2 Other numbers: No field collector's catalogue number
- Research and responses
More information on bobbins and their use with boat shuttles - see record 2003.9.182 [RJ 26/2/2003]
Search terms: Textile, Weaving Accessory
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