Head rest

Description

Wooden head rest: Eastern Africa, Mozambique, Zambezi Delta, collected by Dr John Kirk, economic botanist on David Livingstone’s Zambezi Expedition, 1858 - 1864

Museum reference

A.538.3

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Head rest, Headrest

Production information

Zambezi Delta, Mozambique, Eastern Africa

Date

Mid 19th century

Materials

Wood

Physical description

Wood

Associations

Collector: Kirk, John, Dr, 1832 - 1922
Zambezi Expedition

Exhibitions

• Discoveries Redisplay, 2015

• Dr Livingstone I Presume (23 Nov 2012 - 07 Apr 2013)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Reproduced in: David Livingstone and the Victorian Encounter, National Portrait Publications, London, 1996, p. 147