Whisk
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wildebeest, Wood
Measurements
720 mm (Length)40 mm (W)
Place of origin
Africa
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303936
Summary
An African chieftain's fly whisk made from an animal tail (wildebeest) mounted on to a wooden handle with brass ring hanger. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.