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1944.5.15

Whip with braided leather lash, wooden handle, wound with brass wire and lead plate. [MJD 16/11/2012]

1944.5.15

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Collection type
Object
Description
Whip with braided leather lash, wooden handle, wound with brass wire and lead plate. [MJD 16/11/2012]
Long description
Whip with braided leather lash, wooden handle, wound with brass wire and lead plate. the lash is cylindrically plaited with a decorative braided section at the tip. The wood of the handle is pyroengraved in bands. The lash is attached to the side of the handle, bound in red leather and secured with a lead plate. [MJD 16/11/2012]
Geographical reference
China
Asia > Eastern Asia > China
Xinjiang
Person
Field collector Marc Aurel Stein
PRM source The Estate of Marc Aurel Stein
PRM source Helen Mary Allen
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1906
Date collected
By 1906
Acquisition information
Donated: 1944
Materials and processes
Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Wood Plant, Material Lead Metal, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material Metal Wire, Process Braided, Process Wound, Process Nailed, Process Pyroengraved Pokerwork
Dimensions
Width: max 33 mm, Length: max 865 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1944.5.15
Research and responses

One letter in the PRM manuscripts collection (Penniman Papers) from Stein which might explain his connection to the PRM. It is written to the curator of the time, Mr Penniman, dated June 6 1937: "22 Manor Place, Oxford. Dear Mr Penniman, I remember with pleasure our meeting at Kish in January 1929 and am glad to know you are now looking after anthropology here. It would have been a satisfaction to me to be of some little help to your future pupil as regard to his proposed visit to Lazistan. But I have never been anywhere near that tract(?) on the Black Sea and not knowing in what direction his interests lie I do not think that I could give any useful hints within the very limited time just now at my disposal, anyhow by writing. I have returned from a long journey in Iran and am about to seek some needful rest in the Cotswolds. But later on I hope for a chance of seeing you again. Yours sincerely, A. Stein. " [AS 10/12/2009]

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