Wooden piston, part of a fire-piston. For associated bamboo cylinder see [1938.35.74 .1] [EH [OPS move] 4/9/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Wooden piston, part of a fire-piston. For associated bamboo cylinder see [1938.35.74 .1] [EH [OPS move] 4/9/2017]
Long description: Wooden piston, part of a fire-piston. Cylindrical shaft, wider cylindrical head and pentagonal section where the head meets the shaft. [EH [OPS move] 4/9/2017]
Geographical reference: Myanmar (Burma)
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Myanmar (Burma); Northern Shan State Chinese Border
Cultural groups: Singpho
Person: Field collector Henry George Ashworth Leveson; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1898
Date collected: 1898
Acquisition information: Bequeathed: 1939
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions: Diameter: max 25 mm, Length: max 150 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1938.35.74.2 Other numbers: ?754
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]

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