drinking-tube
- Museum number
- Af1914,-.81
- Description
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Drinking-tube made of reed.
- Production date
- 1914 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 41 centimetres
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Width: 0.75 centimetres
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Depth: 0.75 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Ethdoc 298 - Letter R B Woosnam/Fagan 13 May 1914
'...the bow, quiver of arrows & the two Rhinoceros horns with loop of skin attached ... belong to Somali hunters who come from Italian Somaliland into British East Africa to hunt Elephants & Rhinoceroses ... Within the quiver is a thin hollow stick which is used for sucking the water out of the deep hollows in the great baobab trees which grow in the deserts in which the men hunt ...'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1914
- Acquisition notes
- Af1914,-.66 to 81 were given by R B Woosnam, the game warden in Nairobi; all are recorded as coming from hunters (poachers) from Italian Somaliland. The items belong together - a bow, quiver and its arrows. This is associated with the other items.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1914,-.81
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af1914C3.81 (old CDMS no.)