beater
- Museum number
- As1996,13.23
- Description
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Wool beater (for making felts); made of metal; long thin piece of metal; rectangle of blue felt wrapped several times around one end and sewn together.
- Production date
- 1990s
- Dimensions
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Length: 95 centimetres
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Weight: 120 grammes
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Width: 4.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Ethno Departmental Library Pictorial Archive for images of a selection of felts in collections As1995,20 and As1996,13 being made, photographed with their makers, or in use, plus others. Commissioned collections As1995,20 and As1996,13 were both made by Stephanie Bunn in Kyrgyzstan in the course of doctoral research into Kirgiz yurts and tent felts (University of Manchester). A selection of items from these collections were exhibited at the Museum of Mankind in 1997.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1996
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- As1996,13.23