Unidentified object or part object; braided strips of hide with orange, blue and green beads and hide fringes. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 7/10/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Unidentified object or part object; braided strips of hide with orange, blue and green beads and hide fringes. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 7/10/2005]
Geographical reference: Ethiopia
Africa > Eastern Africa > Ethiopia
Cultural groups: Arab
Person: Field collector Robert Ernest Cheesman; PRM source Mrs R.J. Townsend-Coles
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1944?, uncertain
Date collected: 1914 - 1944 ?
Acquisition information: Donated: 1997
Materials and processes: Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Bead, Material Animal Hide Skin, Process Plaited, Process Beadwork
Dimensions: Width: max 240 mm, Length: max 280 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1997.42.26
Research and responses: The material was collected - mostly in Ethiopia and Arabia by Colonel Robert E. Cheesman (c 1880 - 1962).
The objects in the collection 1997.42 were originally accepted by Jeremy Coote, there is very little supporting information in RDF and in a number of cases it has not been possible at the cataloguing stage to give a definite use or function for the objects. Any user requiring more information is requested to seek guidance from Jeremy in the first instance. Claire Warrior, during her year working in Documentation was asked by Jeremy to compile a rough list. In some cases she has suggested uses. Where this differs from the cataloguer's the addiitonal information has been added in the Notes field [AP 1/2/99]

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