- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Fly-whisk of pale horse hair bound with a woven brass wire handle. [MJD 05/08/2009]
- 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 Horse Hair Animal, Material Brass Metal, Material Metal Wire, Material Wood Plant, Process Woven, Process Carved, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Length: max 655 mm, Diameter 22 mm handle, Width: max 10 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1939.3.75
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