Tumpline Item Number: 1885.66.14 from the MAA: University of Cambridge

Description

Length of light brown fur skin folded in half and having strips of blue and white cotton material attached at either end. The skin has the remains of whiskers at one end, and one leg remaining, it was possibly a weasel or somesuch long creature.; Good

Context

Tumplines were attached to burden baskets and placed over the forehead for carrying heavy loads (G.Crowther).; Collected by: Hepburn.J.E