Container for milking goats made of a section of horn, a wooden stopper at the base, and a short wooden handle. [E.S-R 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 9/12/2004]

Collection type: Object
Description: Container for milking goats made of a section of horn, a wooden stopper at the base, and a short wooden handle. [E.S-R 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 9/12/2004]
Geographical reference: Tibet
Asia > Eastern Asia > Tibet; Western Tibet Spiti
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Irene Marguerite Beasley
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1954
Date collected: By 1954
Acquisition information: Donated: 1954
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Animal Horn, Process Carved, Process Plugged
Dimensions: Length: max 140 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1954.6.157 Other numbers: 273
Research and responses: This object was chosen to feature in a trail around the Pitt Rivers Museum in association with the Museum of English Rural Life on Farming The First 12,000 years (https://merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/online-exhibitions/farming12k/). It featured in a pamphlet with the caption "How many containers has your milk been in before it reaches you? This twentieth-century goat's milk container comes from Spiti in Western Tibet, where nomadic pastoralism - the movement of livestock across the landscape following fresh pasture - has been practiced for thousands of years and is still practiced today. With a capacity of less than 250 millilitres, this container also represents dairying on a much smaller scale then the industry of Europe and North America. There, many milking parlours for cattle are now routinely robotic and automated. PRM 1954.6.157" [FB 16/12/2020]

Search terms: Food and Drink, Vessel, Agriculture and Horticulture, Animal Gear, Goat Accessory, Food Accessory

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