mat
- Museum number
- Af1960,20.26
- Description
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Register 1960
Raphia fibre mat with fringe.
- Production date
- 1905
- Dimensions
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Height: 0.30 centimetres
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Width: 290 centimetres
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Depth: 90 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1960
Raphia fibre mat with fringe.
UGANDA. "Mat made from fibre of Raphia monbuttorum Drude. Entebbe, Uganda. 61-1905. MT Dawe Esq. Scient. For. Dept. Entebbe."
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1960
- Acquisition notes
- Af1960,20.1 to 246 is a large collection of African material transferred to the British Museum by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in 1960. Most of these works had been given to Kew in the XIXc, and the recorded provenances refer to those who gave the objects to Kew together with the date of acquisition by Kew.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1960,20.26