Model
Piston Bellows
| Object Number: | P441 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Kayan |
| Provenience: | Borneo Sarawak |
| Section: | Oceanian |
| Materials: | Bamboo Wood Feather Plant Fiber |
| Height: | 37.5 cm |
| Length: | 53 cm |
| Outside Diameter: | 7.5 cm |
| Credit Line: | Gift of Dr. William H. Furness 3rd., 1898 |
Description
Model piston bellows. Two bamboo tubes, bound together with strips of rattan peel. One tube is closed off at the bottom by a septum, the other is open. Two small bamboo vents, to be inserted in holes at the bottoms of the two wide tubes. Two wooden pistons, one ending in a wooden disk with remnants of feathers, the other a shaft only, missing disk and feathers. Depressing the pistons, with the feather-edged disks, forces air from the bellows through the vents towards the blacksmith's fire. Exhibited at Wistar May 1897: "Model of a forge showing bellows made of joints of bamboo & having long levers attached to the pistons."
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| The Dayaks: Peoples of the Borneo Rain Forest (Furness, Hiller, Harrison Borneo Collection) (25 Feb 1989 - 01 Jul 1990) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Other] Furness, William H. Bornean Collection of W. H. Furness & H. M. Hiller Presented to the Museum of Archaeology and Paleontology.. pg. 1-9 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: No. 64 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Other] Culin, Robert S. CULIN'S LIST OF SPECIMENS EXHIBITED AT WISTAR May 1897.. pg. 1-4 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: No. 24 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] McDougall, William, and Hose, Charles. 1912. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo.. London. Macmillan and Company. Type Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Vol. I, pp. 194-195 and Plate 107 | View Objects related to this Type Citation |
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