- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Coil of plaited arrowroot stem. [SM (Verve) 12/06/2014]
- Long description
- Coil of plaited arrowroot stem. It s tied with a strip of arrowroot stem. [SM (Verve) 12/06/2014]
- Person
- Field collector William George Lawes
- Field collector London Missionary Society
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1872
- Date collected
- By 1872
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1886
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Stem, Process Plaited
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 155 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1887.1.559 Other numbers: 559
- Research and responses
The George Rolleston Archive (Ashmolean Museum) has several letters from W.G. Lawes that were sent to George Rolleston, together with lists of objects sent to the University Museum by Lawes. Copies of these are now in the RDF. [AS 13/03/2012]
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