fly-whisk
- Museum number
- Af1948,25.35
- Description
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Register 1948:
Composite flywhisk, made of an elephant's tail with leather handle and carrying loops.
- Production date
- 1887-1891 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 56.50 centimetres
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Width: 18 centimetres
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Depth: 3.70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1948:
Composite flywhisk, made of an elephant's tail with leather handle & carrying loops.
19- GOLD COAST & JAMAN.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1980 Sept., London, BM, Asante: Kingdom of Gold
- Acquisition date
- 1948
- Acquisition notes
- Register 1948:
Collected by the testator's husband in c. 1888 (see R Austin Freeman, "Travel & Life in Ashanti & Jaman" pp. 148-152, & figure of mask.)
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1948,25.35
