Elephant carved from Lunu warana wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 37864 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 12.01 CAPPARACEAE Crataeva roxburghii | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Elephant carved from Lunu warana wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Sri Lanka | TDWG Region | Sri Lanka | ||
| Parts Held | Elephant carved from Lunu warana wood | Geography Description | Sri Lanka, Colombo | ||
| Uses | Elephant carved from Lunu warana woodUse: MATERIALS - Wood User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Wood | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Dawes Frederick George | Donor No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Opuscular source: Frederick George Dawes was born in 1903 and died in a motor car accident on 21.04.1966. His father was Frederick Dawes, an electrical Engineer. He was admitted as an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in March 1927 and, became a Fellow in January, 1960. Most of his professional life was spent working in Colombo and for part of that time he was on the staff of Messrs. Julius & Creasy, solicitors of Colombo. After his return to the U.K. he assisted Messrs. Guy Wood and, Palmer, Chartered Accountants of Battle Sussex between 1961 and 1966. During his years in Colombo he was a member of the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corp and also a member of a Masonic Lodge. It was during this time that he made the collection of minature car, ved elephants. He married Gwenneth Julia Heartease Pohl Pearse at St.Michael and All Angels Church, Polwatte, Colombo on 27.03.1933. She was the daughter of William and Emily Eliza Pearse of Mussorie. She was born in India on 08.04.97 and died on 19.02.87, .At the time of her marriage, she was Principal of Bisakha Vidyalaya Girls School, Colombo having previously been a staff teacher there from 1922 to 1926. Mr and Mrs Dawes returned to the United Kingdom in the early 1950s and bought a house at Cross-in-Ha, nd, Heathfield Sussex which they called 'Gwefry' and where they created a very fine garden. In 1963 they to 'Roselands', Mayfield where they once again demonstrated their skills as gardeners and they remained there until their deaths. NB. This information, applies to the following specimens of carved elephants List of vernacular names corresponding to numbers on elephants feet kept separate in ECOS | ||||