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1886.1.634

Wooden vessel, globular-shaped and cut from a solid piece of wood. Diagonal grooves are carved into the surface. There are two projecting perforated ears which have a cord strung through them.

1886.1.634

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Collection type
Object
Description
Wooden vessel, globular-shaped and cut from a solid piece of wood. Diagonal grooves are carved into the surface. There are two projecting perforated ears which have a cord strung through them.
Cultural groups
Zulu
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1878
Date collected
By 1878
Acquisition information
Transferred: 18/11/1885
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Material Plant Fibre, Process Grooved, Process Carved, Process Perforated, Process Painted
Dimensions
Height: max 245 mm, Diameter: max 240 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1886.1.634 Other numbers: 193 ?128 ?327 592 593 594 595 129
Research and responses

* 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]

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