Carved whale bone riding-whip.

Collection type: Object
Description: Carved whale bone riding-whip.
Long description: Carved whale bone riding-whip. There is a band of dark brown horn/bone around the top of the shaft below the handle. [MJD (Verve) 12/05/2015]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Wales Scotland Northern Ireland
Cultural groups: European
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Edward Lawson; PRM source Charles Miskin Laing
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1840
Date collected: 1819 - 1840
Acquisition information: Donated: 1936
Materials and processes: Material Whale Bone Animal, Material Animal Bone, Process Carved, Process Scrimshaw Carved
Dimensions: Length 930 mm, Diameter: max 31 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1936.26.41
Research and responses: Janet West of the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, has identified Edward Lawson as being active in the South Seas from 1819-1840, rather than 1800-1820 as given in the original accession record (see her letter in RDF/ Collectors/Lawson). [JC 1996 1 30]

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