Ornament: a length of thick cotton string, covered for part of its length with black feathers; tuft of black feathers at one end.

Collection type: Object
Description: Ornament: a length of thick cotton string, covered for part of its length with black feathers; tuft of black feathers at one end.
Geographical reference: Guyana
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Guyana; Brazil
Latin America and the Caribbean > South America > Brazil
Person: Field collector William John Burchell; Other owner Anna Burchell; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1829, uncertain Date made: 1829, uncertain
Date collected: 1826 - 1829
Acquisition information: Transferred: 17/02/1886
Materials and processes: Material Bird Feather, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Material String
Dimensions: Length: max 1280 mm as tied
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.910.6 Other numbers: 914 - 935
Research and responses: William John Burchell was collecting in southern Africa between 1810 - 1815 and in South America between 1826 - 1830, see Biographies file for further information [AP 20/1/99]
According to Peter Riviére none of the sources that he has checked mention that Burchell visited Guyana and it may therefore be that he was not the field collector of these items. PR confirmed that there is a detailed report of his itinerary in Phytologia 14 (1967) [AP 24/06/2009]

Search terms: Cordage, Ornament

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