- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Waist cord for babies, made of twisted plant fibre. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 29/4/2005]
- Person
- Field collector Antoinette Powell-Cotton
- Field collector Diana Powell-Cotton
- PRM source Antoinette Powell-Cotton
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1936
- Date collected
- 1936 - 1937
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1940
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Fibre, Process Plaited, Process Twisted
- Dimensions
- Length: max 420 mm bundled
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1940.7.292 Other numbers: 36.2400
Search terms: Ornament, Children and Childcare, Cordage, Waist Ornament
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