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1938.35.79

Fire piston

1938.35.79

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Collection type
Object
Description
Fire piston
Geographical reference
Myanmar (Burma)
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Myanmar (Burma)
Chinese-Burmese Border East Manglun (Mong-lem)
Cultural groups
Wa
Singpho
Person
Field collector Henry George Ashworth Leveson
PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period
Date made: 1800-1900
Date collected
1900
Acquisition information
Bequeathed: 1939
Materials and processes
Material Bamboo Plant, Material Wood Plant
Dimensions
Length 122 mm total, Depth: max 36 mm total
Object numbers
Accession number: 1938.35.79 Other numbers: 759
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]

Search terms: Fire, Fire Accessory

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