- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Spherical perforated stone weight for a digging stick.
- Geographical reference
- Eastern Cape Cacadu Camdeboo Kust
- Cultural groups
- Khoe-San
- Date
- Date collected
- Before 1936
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1936 Found unentered: 2004
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 115 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2004.142.8 Other numbers: B3 [Dunn] 459 [Dunn] 1938.37.49
- Research and responses
Related Documents File - Copy of MPhil Thesis by William Ellerby 'Forgotten but not Lost: a critical analysis of the life and work of E.J. Dunn' [LP 18/5/2004]
- Associated publications
- Related Documents File - A photocopy of 'Colonial and Indian Exhibition: London 1886. CATALOGUE OF THE EXHIBITS OF THE COLONY OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.' There is an original copy of this in the Bodleian.This catalogue contains a detailed list of the Dunn Collection of stone tools and pottery. The objects are listed by type, with their provenance and cultural group listed. The objects are catalogued in this exhibition by letter/number combination [A1; B26; J42] etc, which refers to the labels that are still on many of the objects in the Dunn Collection. When a label was found on an object I have listed it in the 'Other numbers' field as well as in the Notes field as 'Pre-PRM label'. Some of the labels have fallen off or are illegible. [LP 10/6/2004
Search terms: Agriculture and Horticulture, Tool, Food and Fuel Gathering, Weight, Digging Stick, Agricultural Tool
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