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1938.34.138

Syrinx of 5 stout bamboo tubes in a row. Stopped pipes, shaped at top.

1938.34.138

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Collection type
Object
Description
Syrinx of 5 stout bamboo tubes in a row. Stopped pipes, shaped at top.
Geographical reference
Myanmar (Burma)
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Myanmar (Burma)
Karen (Kawthule) State Loikaw
Person
Field collector H.E. Leveson
Field collector Henry George Ashworth Leveson
PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period
Date made: 1800-1900?, uncertain
Date collected
1894
Acquisition information
Bequeathed: 1939
Materials and processes
Material Bamboo Plant, Process Tied
Dimensions
Length: max 193 mm longest pipe, Width 92 mm, Length 91 mm shortest pipe
Object numbers
Accession number: 1938.34.138 Other numbers: 138
Research and responses

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). The identity of Leveson (H.E. or H.G.A.) remains unclear. [FL 14/10/2004]

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