Rifle

Museum number:
10-202
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21100000202
Accession number:
Acc.27 and Acc.9
Description:
Rifle; muzzle loading; percussion, converted from flintlock. Barrel length 27 inches, overall length 43 inches. Originally a military flintlock rifle-musket. Uncertain age and origin, but probably British. Damaged by white ants, ramrod missing.
Donor:
S. A. Cloman
Collection place:
Philippines
Culture or time period:
European
Collector:
S. A. Cloman
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Rifles (long guns)
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
December 16, 1901 and January 1901
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Rifle, accession number 10-202, described as Rifle; muzzle loading; percussion, converted from flintlock. Barrel length 27 inches, overall length 43 inches. Originally a military flintlock rifle-musket. Uncertain age and origin, but probably British. Damaged by white ants, ramrod missing.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Rifle, accession number 10-202, described as Rifle; muzzle loading; percussion, converted from flintlock. Barrel length 27 inches, overall length 43 inches. Originally a military flintlock rifle-musket. Uncertain age and origin, but probably British. Damaged by white ants, ramrod missing.

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