Two pieces of ancient string from tablet.

Collection type: Object
Description: Two pieces of ancient string from tablet.
Geographical reference: China
Asia > Eastern Asia > China; Xinjiang Taklimakan Desert [Taklamakan Desert] Niya
Person: Field collector Marc Aurel Stein; PRM source The Estate of Marc Aurel Stein; PRM source Helen Mary Allen
Date
Date collected: By 1944
Acquisition information: Donated: 1944
Materials and processes: Material String Plant
Dimensions: Length: max 105 mm, Length: max 38 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1944.5.17.1 Accession number: 1944.5.17.2 Other numbers: N.1.7
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]

Search terms: Specimen, Cordage, Cord

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