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horn, shot

human history
  • Other Name

    [scrimshaw] powder horn (alternative spelling)

  • Description

    shot horn

    small powder horn; surface worked, pale body with dark tip; wooden butt, secured with nails; hollow interior with [lead] lining; hand carved text on body: HILDEBRAND / ROBIN H S. 01 / SIEGFRIED / FOLKER; given to donor by Lemuel Meiklejohn when he was seventeen years of age, who with five others drowned in the Hauraki Gulf when the schooner "Rapid" capsized on Sunday 22nd. March 1864.

  • Place
    [Germany]
  • Associated Place

    Hauraki Gulf/Auckland/New Zealand

  • Accession Number
    1965.78.454
  • Accession Date
    29 Oct 1965
  • Other Id

    col.2093 (colonial)

    ocm1523 (old colonists museum)

  • Department

    History

    War History

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  • horn, shot, 1965.78.454, col.2093, ocm1523, Photographed by Denise Baynham, digital, 10 Dec 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • horn, shot, 1965.78.454, col.2093, ocm1523, Photographed by Denise Baynham, digital, 10 Dec 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • horn, shot, 1965.78.454, col.2093, ocm1523, Photographed by Denise Baynham, digital, 10 Dec 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • horn, shot, 1965.78.454, col.2093, ocm1523, Photographed by Denise Baynham, digital, 10 Dec 2018, © Auckland Museum CC BY
  • horn, shot col.2093
  • horn, shot col.2093
  • horn, shot col.2093
  • horn, shot col.2093
  • horn, shot col.2093
  • horn, shot col.2093

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