Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label reads: 'Acland Colln. Prof. Hughes 1913'.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Labels & Markings)
Printed label on orange paper reads: 'Acland Collection'.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Other owners)
Professor Thomas McKenny Hughes donated two distinct collections from Acland (possibly Rev. C.L. Acland), which are recorded in the 1913 Annual Report: one from Peru and one from the Shetland Islands. This object is one of those from the Shetland Islands, which is listed in the 1913 Annual Report (AR 1913.410-412). However, it is possible that the collection came in earlier, as a label in von Hugel's hand on TEMP.00562 reads 'Dep 1892'; possibly McKenny Hughes gave money to purchase the collection so that it entered the museum's permanent collection. In either case, it does not seem as though it was not given a proper accession number: the Annual Report entry was pasted into the 1913 Accession Register, possibly as a place holder. Which of those described in the Annual Report this object is is currently unknown.
Event Date 1913
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Agricultural tool. Long cutting tool with iron cutting edge at a right angle. Wooden shaft fashioned to a point with a rectangular hole in shaft.
Event Date 23/8/2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Agricultural tool, possibly a scythe, cutting tool consisting of short iron blade with inwards facing cutting edge at a right angle ending in a sharp point, pointed end possibly broken with section missing; tang of blade square in section and probably attached to shaft with iron nail or rivet, attachment reinforced with small sheet of metal wrapped around shaft and tang, with two nails or rivets; wooden shaft, square in section, fashioned to a point at one end. Shaft has a rectangular hole extending through its width approximately a quarter of the shafts length from the pointed end, below this on one face are four small holes arranged in a rectangular pattern, possibly indicating a missing handle or 'snath'.
Event Date 9/1/2025
Author: Stephanie Chinneck

Context (Display)
Copper wire previously attached to shaft which may indicate that this object was on display.
Event Date 14/5/2025
Author: Kirsty Kernohan