- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Low wicker stool [.2] for stand with double membrane drums [.1]
- Long description
- Low wicker stool [.2] for stand with double membrane drums [.1]. For the complete record for this object see [1886.15.3] and for the records for the detachable individual parts see stand [1886.15.3 .1] and double membrane drums [1886.15.3 .3 - 1886.15.3 .23]. [GL 20/2/2020]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Maurice Vidal Portman
- PRM source Maurice Vidal Portman
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1886
- Date collected
- By 1886
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 12/1886, uncertain Transferred: 12/1886, uncertain
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Animal Hide Skin, Material Cane Plant, Process Carved, Process Hollowed, Process Stretched, Process Tied, Process Wicker Woven, Process Basketry
- Dimensions
- Height: max 130 mm, Width: max 430 mm, Length: max 425 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1886.15.3.2
- Research and responses
Shway Yae, 'The Burman, II' . I found the following bibliographical reference to Shway Yoe mentioned in the red numbers accession book 'SCOTT, J. George ('Shway Yoe'). BURMA. As it was, as it is, and as it will be. Redway: London, 1886.' [AP 12/12/2000]
Search terms: Music, Basketry, Musical Instrument
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