- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- ?Flywhisk made from a dark animal hair tail bound with a textile handle. [MJD 06/08/2009]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Ovimbundu
- Person
- Field collector Antoinette Powell-Cotton
- Field collector Diana Powell-Cotton
- PRM source Antoinette Powell-Cotton
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1937
- Date collected
- 1936 - 1937
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1941
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Animal Tail, Material Textile, Material String, Process Bound, Process Stitched, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length: max 520 mm, Width: max 190 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1941.12.95 Other numbers: 37.371
- Research and responses
According to ‘African Ethnonyms’ (1996) the current group name for Umbundu is Ovimbundu.
According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, Percy H. G. Powell-Cotton was a late 19th century - early 20th century English explorer of Central Africa. The collector and donors of the material catalogued in this entry, Miss A Powell-Cotton and Miss D. Powell-Cotton may possibly be his daughters? [Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica] [MR 3/4/2000]
1941.12.95
?Flywhisk made from a dark animal hair tail bound with a textile handle. [MJD 06/08/2009]
1941.12.95
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