Wooden 'sumpitan' (blowpipe) - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 99755 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 999.99 FAMILY UNKNOWN | Entry Book Number | 11.2017 | |
| Artefact Name | Wooden 'sumpitan' (blowpipe) | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Malaysia | TDWG Region | Malaysia | ||
| Parts Held | Wooden 'sumpitan' (blowpipe) | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Wooden 'sumpitan' (blowpipe)Use: MATERIALS User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS | ||
| Storage | Bottles etc, outsize | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Dunsmore, Susi | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 10/04/2017 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Dunsmore, Susi | Collector No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Hose & McDougall (1966), Vol I, p. 215 - The blow-pipe or 'sumpitan' is perhaps the finest product of native Boreno craftsmanship. It is made by Kayans, Kenyahs, and Punans, and rarely by Ibans and Klemantans. the best are made from the straight-grained w, ood of the 'jangang' tree. x0Dx0A'Wanderings in the great forests of Borneo' - Odoardo Beccari - Singapore 1989, Oxford University Press: Describes method of boring a sumpitan - by erecting a parge sturdy scaffold / platform with which to brace the pole (wood, usually tapag or mingris (Dialium)) and boring from the bottom up by striking repeatedly with a metal rod. | ||||