Black horn piston, part of a fire piston. Thin cylindrical shaft and inverted conical knob. For associated cylinder see [1938.35.80 .2] [EH [OPS move] 4/9/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Black horn piston, part of a fire piston. Thin cylindrical shaft and inverted conical knob. For associated cylinder see [1938.35.80 .2] [EH [OPS move] 4/9/2017]
Geographical reference: Myanmar (Burma)
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Myanmar (Burma); Southern Shan State
Cultural groups: Burman; Shan
Person: Field collector Henry George Ashworth Leveson; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1890
Date collected: 1890
Acquisition information: Bequeathed: 1939
Materials and processes: Material Animal Horn, Process Carved
Dimensions: Depth: max 29 mm, Length: max 131 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1938.35.80.2 Other numbers: 760
Research and responses: Card and book refer to Leveson as H E Leveson; this is undoubtedly actually 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]