Basketry finger trap shaped like a crocodile with gaping mouth and sticks wrapped with plant leaf strips for forelegs. with a piece of reptile skin bound around its upper jaw. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 15/3/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Basketry finger trap shaped like a crocodile with gaping mouth and sticks wrapped with plant leaf strips for forelegs. with a piece of reptile skin bound around its upper jaw. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 15/3/2005]
Geographical reference: Malawi
Africa > Eastern Africa > Malawi; Nkhotakota
Person: Field collector William Coleman Piercy; Field collector Universities' Mission to Central Africa; PRM source William Coleman Piercy; PRM source Faith Piercy
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1935
Date collected: By 1935
Acquisition information: Bequeathed: 1935 Acquired: 1939
Materials and processes: Material Plant Leaf, Material Reptile Skin, Material Wood Plant, Process Basketry, Process Wound
Dimensions: Length: max 240 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1939.3.44
Research and responses: Related Documents File - Three letters from Mrs. [?Faith] Piercy to Thomas Penniman and Beatrice Blackwood to organise the transfer of the articles her husband bequeathed to the Pitt Rivers Museum. RDF also includes notes on 'Chinyansa specimens, Nyassaland (KOTAKOTA)' and 'Specimens from other regions', and additional 'Notes by William Coleman Piercy'. [GI 10/12/2001]