Chain made up of small rings of plaited grass. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/10/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Chain made up of small rings of plaited grass. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/10/2005]
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa
Cultural groups: Tswana
Person: Other owner Anna Burchell; Field collector William John Burchell; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: On or before 1815
Date collected: ?1810 - 1815
Acquisition information: Transferred: 08/03/1886
Materials and processes: Material Grass Fibre Plant, Process Plaited
Dimensions: Length: max 1500 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.491 Other numbers: 448 915
Research and responses: William John Burchell was collecting in southern Africa between 1810 - 1815 and in South America between 1826 - 1829, see Biographies file for further information [AP 20/1/99] Note the discrepancy in date received at the PRM between the vellum volume entry and the paper stuck into vellum volume I [AP 17/6/99]

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