Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label affixed by string reads: 'Tibetan tent poles (3) Edmund Leach coll. not accessioned into museum collections'. A later hand adds 'Part of Lindren [coll.]'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Tent pole. Long, round pole lacking iron elements found on the other two poles.
Event Date 10/9/2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Found together / assemblage)
The three tent poles (TEMP.00599.1-3) may relate to the tent (TEMP.00527), also from Tibet and collected by Lindgren.
Event Date 10/9/2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
Markings on either end of the pole possibly indicating that it was fitted into the two hoops of the other poles and acted as a central ridge.
Event Date 11/2/2025
Author: Stephanie Chinneck

Description (Physical description)
Wooden tent pole, one of three for TEMP.00527, cylindrical in section. Possibly the ridge pole.
Event Date 11/2/2025
Author: Stephanie Chinneck

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