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1892.41.162

Bird-shaped toy whistle. No fingerholes, red clay. Wings drawn on simply.

1892.41.162

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Collection type
Object
Description
Bird-shaped toy whistle. No fingerholes, red clay. Wings drawn on simply.
Person
Field collector Richard Carnac Temple
PRM source Richard Carnac Temple
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1892
Date collected
By 1892
Acquisition information
Donated: 1892
Materials and processes
Material Pottery, Process Fire-Hardened, Process Incised, Process Glazed
Dimensions
Length 107 mm, Height 90 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1892.41.162
Research and responses

None of the items from Maulmain [sic - for which I can not find the modern equivalent] ostensibly from Burma were entered in the original computerisation of the Burmese objects, it may be that it is not therefore in Burma [AP 28/3/2000]

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