toy.dancing.bird

Rectangular base and top. Poker work decoration and inscription ( maker's name). 4 paper flowers. Bird on top. Hasluck: 'Dancing bird made by a Catholic mountaineer from Albania. It dances as man plays Lahuta - a simple mountain lyre. A thread attached to the player's right hand little finger makes the bird dance. Probably of European origin as bird known in Elbasan 40 years ago as European.'

Hasluck, Margaret

wood paper

H: 210 mm L: 150 mm W: 150 mm

Urns were the dominant type of pottery vessel used in burials, usually of a cremated body, during the early Bronze Age, about 1450-1250BC. They are found both in cemeteries and as secondary burials in barrows, often with the base uppermost, and may be accompanied by other grave goods. An urn is tall with a flat, often very narrow base, and may be decorated. There are two separate urn traditions, collared and cordoned urns. This is an incomplete cordoned urn, the base is missing, but the bevelled rim, the neck, defined by two cordons, and the decorated collar area are preserved. The cordon around the base of the collar is particularly emphasised. The cord-impressed decoration makes a pattern of interlocking striped triangles. The urn was found at Drumtochty, Fetteresso, Kincardineshire. The decoration is typical for a cordoned urn. The damage to the base suggests that the urn was originally inverted over a cremation and was subsequently damaged by ploughing.f