Accession No

1927.1634 B.1-2


Description

Cheroot case. Telescopic case woven with cane, showing geometric pattern of lines and flowers, of green, purple, and colour.


Place

Asia; Southeast Asia; Timor; ?Timor-Leste [?East Timor]


Period


Source

Clarke, Louis Colville Gray [donor]


Department

Anth


Reference Numbers

1927.1634 B.1-2


Cultural Affliation


Material

Grass; Plant


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Related Documents)
Accession Register 12, p.228, '1927.634 A/C. Three coloured grass-plaited cheroot cases. Portuguese Timor. Clarke Gift.'
Event Date 1927
Author: Mark Elliott


Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1927.1634 A-C, handwritten in black ink, reads, 'Three plaited grass Cheroot Cases. / A. Decorated with highly conventionalized two-headed eagles in red in brilliant yellow ground with star and other designs in black. / B. Floral designs in mauve & green with silver foil on native buffcoloured. / C. geometric designs in purple & green on yellow.'
Event Date 1927
Author: maa


Context (Display)
On display in the Maudslay Hall, CUMAA, from 1990.
Display label reads, '14 Cheroot cases / Three plaited grass cigar cases. One decortated with red two-headed eagles on a yellow ground, another with silver fall and floral design on mauve and green, and the third with purple and green geometrical designs on yellow.'
Event Date 1990
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Cheroot case. Telescopic case woven with cane, showing geometric pattern of lines and flowers, of green, purple, and colour.
Event Date 11/9/2025
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu


FM:327517

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