- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Cotton rope with red feathers attached along almost all its length, with fringe of black feathers on one end.
- Long description
- Cotton rope with red feathers attached along almost all its length, with fringe of black feathers on one end. This object is tied to 1886.1.910 .9. [El.B 27/11/2008]
- Geographical reference
- 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 1540 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1886.1.910.10 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]
1886.1.910.10
Cotton rope with red feathers attached along almost all its length, with fringe of black feathers on one end.
1886.1.910.10
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