- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Straining tube, curved, bound with plant fibre and with basketry top. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 7/4/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1916
- Date collected
- circa 1916
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1916
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Process Bound, Process Basketry
- Dimensions
- Length: max 410 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1916.26.18
- Research and responses
Rev. John Roscoe The Soul of Central Africa, A General Account of The Mackie Ethnological Expedition, London 1922. Balfour Library Reference : Africa 8
Also: Roscoe The Northern Bantu, Cambridge 1915. Balfour Library Africa 8
Search terms: Food and Drink, Sieve, Food Accessory
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