model building/structure
- Museum number
- Af,LMS.3
- Description
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Model house made of thatch, paper, board, straw. Sits on a marked up base board.
- Production date
- 1816-1826 (between)
- Dimensions
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Height: 21 centimetres
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Width: 41.50 centimetres
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Depth: 32.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- This model house is listed in the 1826 catalogue of the London Missionary Society Museum as coming from Lattakoo [Dithokong]. The 1859 catalogue adds that it had been 'made on the spot by the Rev. R Moffat'. The LMS number relates to the 1890 loan to the BM by the LMS.
See C. E. Weinberg, ‘Moffat’s model house, South Africa’, in K. Jacobs, C. Knowles and C. Wingfield (eds), ‘Trophies, Relics and Curios? Missionary Heritage from Africa and the Pacific’ (Leiden, 2015), pp.146–50.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Front part of base board loose.
- Acquisition date
- 1911
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,LMS.3
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af1911C27.3 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Af1890,Loan (originally loaned to BM in 1890 by LMS)
