fly-whisk
- Museum number
- Af1947,16.36
- Description
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Composite fly-whisk, made of giraffe-tail, with loop handle of knotted hide, junction of handle and whisk masked by rows of pink and red glass? beads.
- Dimensions
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Height: 85 centimetres
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Width: 11 centimetres
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Depth: 6 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Composite fly-whisk, made of giraffe-tail, with loop handle of knotted hide, junction of handle & whisk masked by rows of pink & red glass beads.
Register 1947:
35-41. TURKANA, KENYA
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1947
- Acquisition notes
- Register 1947:
Collected by the late C W Hobley, CMG, probably all between 1890 and 1910 by which date he had formed his "museum".
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1947,16.36