Peg from a set of fire-sawing apparatus. Made from a strip of bamboo. One end is flat, the other is pointed. For the associated objects see 1938.35.55 .1

Collection type: Object
Description: Peg from a set of fire-sawing apparatus. Made from a strip of bamboo. One end is flat, the other is pointed. For the associated objects see 1938.35.55 .1 - .7 [AB [OPS Move] 12/4/2017]
Geographical reference: Myanmar (Burma)
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Myanmar (Burma); Western Kawthule (Karen) State
Cultural groups: Pa-O (Taungthu Karen (Kayin)); Karen; Kayin
Person: Field collector Henry George Ashworth Leveson; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period: Date made: 1800-1891
Date collected: By 1891
Acquisition information: Bequeathed: 1939
Materials and processes: Material Bamboo Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions: Depth: max 16 mm, Width: max 11 mm, Length: max 182 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1938.35.55.3 Other numbers: 735 a-g
Research and responses: Card and book refer to Leveson as H E Leveson, but he is undoubtedly H G A Leveson [SD]
Balfour does refer to an 'H.E. Leveson' in his 1907 chapter, 'The Fire-Piston', in Anthropological Essays Presented to Edward Burnett Tylor, Oxford, Clarendon Press, (see, for example, pages 23 and 26), so the identity of Leveson remains unclear. [FL 14/10/2004]
HGA Leveson is listed as "Officers in the Burma Commission" under "Deputy Commissioners, 3rd Grade" in The India List and India Office List for 1905 (p. 69) [Dan Hicks 7/3/2017]

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