Box NRI2/8/21/1
Container
Contains 2 Results:
File
Hand box for keeping fighting crickets, c. 1964
File
Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/NRI2/8/21/1
Scope and Contents
The box was held in a metal ‘Bacon Brothers Manufacturers’ tin. A handwritten note by Joseph Needham on the outside of the tin states: ‘Wood and ivory hand box for keeping fighting crickets - the smallest of a group of half a dozen in the collection of Rewi Alley, Peking’. The round ivory top is carved with a flower design and star-shaped holes.
Dates:
c. 1964
Sub-Fonds
Collections, curiosities and fragments, c.1940s-1980s
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/NRI2/8/21
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
These are objects collected by, given to, or worn by Joseph Needham, Dorothy Needham and Lu Gwei-Djen. Objects given to the Needham Research Institute are catalogued as NRI 1
Dates:
c.1940s-1980s