- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wooden netting needle and string net [SM (Verve) 17/06/2014]
- Long description
- Wooden netting needle and string net comprising two detachable parts: a wooden netting needle [1939.3.48.1] and string net [1939.3.48.2] [SM (Verve) 25/4/2016]
- 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 Fibre, Material String Plant, Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Netted, Process Twisted
- Dimensions
- Length: max 220 mm, Length: max 325 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1939.3.48
Search terms: Tool, Textile, Specimen, Fishing, Hunting, Netting Tool
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