Description (Labels & Markings)
Label on bamboo poles, reads '860 cotton seed machine'. Label on wooden poles, partially broken and loose part bagged seperately, reads '860 handle cotton seed machine'
Event Date
Author: Stephanie Chinneck

Description (Physical description)
1938.90: Cotton seed machine or gin. Two thick bamboo uprights with crosspiece and iron spindle with long wood handle. Also a cloth bag with fragments of cotton adhering to inside and two large slotted stakes. 1938.90 A: Flat basket for cotton gin. 1938.90 B: Deeper basket for cotton gin
Event Date 1938
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Cotton seed machine or gin. Two thick bamboo uprights wrapped in rope and two wood possible crosspieces.
Event Date 5/9/2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Four poles for cotton seed machine or gin, two of bamboo and two wood. Two lengths of bamboo, tied together with sting, plant firbre and rope; cotton bag attached to one length containing cotton fibres; rectangular perforation at one end. Two wooden posts, roughly rectangular in section, one end with bevelled joint, one end with rectangular perforation.
Event Date 14/2/2025
Author: Stephanie Chinneck

Conservation (Freezing)
CON.2025.6153 | Freezing
Event Date 5/3/2025
Author: Kirsty Kernohan