Context (Related Documents)
An annotated label in pencil with length (24), height (7) and width (6 1/2) measurements, in inches, relating to '31 C' was found with '1921.292.1'.
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Author: Jane Pettitt

Context (Related Documents)
Historic printed label found with 1921.292.1 reads: 'ABYSSINIA PAPYRUS RAFT. Bundles of Papyrus stems closely lashed together. The only approach to boat form is the rounded submerged part: the great depth of this raft-derivative is to maintain flotation after the stems have become soaked'.
Event Date
Author: Jane Pettitt

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card for 1921.292[.1-2] reads: 'Collected and donated by G. W. Graham, Govt Geolt'.
Event Date 1921
Author: Jane Pettitt

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1921.292[.1-2]: ''Tankwa'. Model of papyrus boat (about 10-20 feet long and paddled with reeds. (Phragmites). Paddle in proportion'.

Event Date 1921
Author: maa

Context (Acquisition Details)
George Walter Grabham (1882-1955) was Government geologist in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan from 1906 to 1939.
Event Date 28/6/2021
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Tankwa. Model boat, broadly pointed-oval in shape with a convex base, hollow internal surface and one upturned end, all bound together with twisted fibre. Described on the catalogue card as of 'papyrus' and 'phragmites'.
Event Date 24/2/2022
Author: Jane Pettitt