- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Hank of rawhide thong. [SM (Verve) 02/06/2014]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Charles Alexander Pope
- PRM source Christ Church, University of Oxford
- PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- PRM source Department of Comparative Anatomy, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1865?, uncertain
- Date collected
- By 1865?
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1886, uncertain
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Rawhide Skin
- Dimensions
- Width: max 65 mm, Length: max 430 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1886.21.11
- Research and responses
For an account of the Charles A. Pope Collection, see Speaking for Themselves: The Pope Collection of Native American Artifacts in the Pitt Rivers Museum, by Lindsey Richardson (University of Oxford: M.Sc. dissertation in Material Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, 2001); copy in RDF (Collectors: Pope). [JC 6 1 2004]
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