Description (Labels & Markings)
'41A' and '710' on old labels adhered to objects.
Event Date
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Tortoise shell, possibly part of a musical instrument. Piece of string attached through hole at front of shell; Good.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (References)
Described in the 'Catalogue of the Ethnological Collection from the Malay Peninsula as: '710. A gong formed out of the carapace of a small tortoise, and a wooden striker.' (p.12).
Event Date 1899
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (References)
Skeat, Walter William. 1899. The Skeat Collection: Catalogue of the Ethnological Collection from the Malay Peninsula presented to the University in 1898 by the Collector. Fourteenth Annual Report of the Antiquarian Committee. Cambridge.
Event Date 1899
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff

Description (Physical description)
A percussion instrument, consisting of a tortoise shell bell [1.] and a wooden beater [.2]. There is a hole through the upper side of the tortoise shell on one end, with a piece of knotted plant fibre string threaded through. The beater is wooden and roughly cylindrical, with a narrowed, convex section forming the handle and a piece of string tied round one end. There are scratches on one side of the shell, likely where it was struck by the beater.
Event Date 23/6/2023
Author: Eleanor Beestin-Sheriff