- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Black-lacquered wooden cantle with pad. [ASh [OPS move] 2/6/2017]
- Long description
- Black-lacquered wooden cantle. The wooden swell has a leather seat pad and may have become unattached from the main saddle [1916.39.16 .1 .1]. See the records 1916.39.16 .1 - .5 for the other associated records. [ASh [OPS move] 2/6/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Manipur
- Person
- Field collector J. Dalton Woodthorpe
- Field collector Robert Gosset Woodthorpe
- Field collector James Johnstone
- PRM source J. Dalton Woodthorpe
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1884?, uncertain Date made: Before 1916?, uncertain
- Date collected
- By 1916 or by 1884
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884, uncertain Donated: 03/1916, uncertain Transferred: 1886 Found unentered: Donated 1884?;Donated 03/1916?;Transferred 1886;Found unentered
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Wood Plant, Material Metal, Material Lacquer Varnish, Material Textile, Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Process Lacquered Varnished, Process Padded, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 162 mm, Width: max 643 mm, Length: max 540 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1916.39.16.1.2
- Research and responses
This might actually be the Polo saddle from Manipur from Col J. Johnstone mentioned in the 1884 Annual Report of the OUMNH, see prm possibles for entry [AP 11/10/2013]
Search terms: Animal Gear, Saddle