Seed
Category
Natural History / Animals, Plants & Fossils
Date
1932
Materials
Seed
Measurements
150 mm (Length)40 mm (W)
Place of origin
Yirol
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303951
Summary
One of six seed pods from a cotton tree with Lord Egerton's number 282C. Four of the seed pods are intact, two have been split to reveal the cotton inside, one with one half only. Yirol, Sudan, 1932. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton in Yirol, Sudan, 1932
Marks and inscriptions
Associated label. Seed Pods of the Cotton Tree, Yirol, Sudan 282C.