Museum catalogue: Antarctic Collection
Tent pole
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Accession no.: | N: 1238b | ||||||||||
Object name: | Tent pole | ||||||||||
Title: | Tent pole | ||||||||||
Description: | Five bamboo tent poles (there were originally six but one is missing) attached to a canvas top. Part of a four man tent (N: 1238a) used on the British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 (Terra Nova). | ||||||||||
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Number of items: | 6 | ||||||||||
Full description: |
Five spotted bamboo tent poles fixed into a canvas tent cap. The tent cap has six stitched pouches to take the poles (one pole is missing), and each pole is stitched in place with string. The feet of the poles are wrapped with textile tape. |
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