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1886.1.242.2

Two panels of scale armour with horn scales laced to each other.

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1886.1.242.2

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Collection type
Object
Description
Two panels of scale armour with horn scales laced to each other.
Geographical reference
Indonesia
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Indonesia
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1878
Date collected
By 1878
Acquisition information
Transferred: 10/02/1886
Materials and processes
Material Animal Horn, Process Perforated, Process Tied
Dimensions
Length: max 540 mm, Length: max 520 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1886.1.242.2 Accession number: 1886.1.242.3 Other numbers: 286 or 377 ?73 ?74
Research and responses

On page 60 of the Ashmolean accession book is the following comment for 1886.1.413 - 414 '?Already entered as A.M. 242a (1886.1.286). * There is a note in the Ramsden collectors volume stating 'Retrospective numbers written in pencil down left hand column June 1975 E.S.G. Collated with A.M. but considerable problems encountered. All Ramsden seem to be in A.M.' Note that this exercise may have been the source of the confusion that occurred during Elizabeth Sandford Gunn's work on the Ashmolean collection with regard to numbers. In some instances, these numbers SEEM to have been used to number the objects (wrongly). [AP 16/7/99] This object is not mentioned in Collectors Miscellaneous XI Accession Book entry - Ramsden coll pages 223 - 255 [AP 21/7/99]

This object has been associated with the number 1886.1.286, but this number is assigned to a Chinese coin. [El.B 29/3/2007]

This object is also associated with 1886.1.413 and 414. These may be a duplicate entry for this object but they may be separate objects. This object has been definitely matched to 1886.1.242 .2-.3 only. It remains to be seen whether the other objects turn up or not. [El.B 29/3/2007]

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