Card/Transcription No.: 148ac

148. Three horse-hair fly-whisks

1. Position
Under chariot-wheels 133 & 134.
Cp. also 168

(a) Length about 35.
Handle a cylinder of wood, carved to a lion's head and neck, & covered with thin gesso &
gold leaf.
Length of handle 9. Diam., at junction with whisk, 4.7.
Perforated right through head, ending in open mouth with a hole .8 in diam.
Whisk Base a bundle of reeds, covered or bound round with leather. To this leather were
attached small tufts of black horse-hair

(b) & (c)
Exactly similar, but rather longer (circ. 40).
Handle of (b) 8 long: diam 4
 " " (c) 9.7 " : " 4.8.

Treatment Sprayed with celluloid in amyl acetate.