The Prince and the Plunder

A book on how Britain took one boy and piles of treasures from Ethiopia

Category: Whip

Whip ‘picked up in the state prison at Magdala’

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What: Whip with wooden handle

Where: The National Museums of Scotland

Sources:

National Museums of Scotland spreadsheet
Accession number: A.L.367.10
Description: Whip or geraf with wooden handle and long coiled leather lash, used for thrashing prisoners to death: Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, picked up in the state prison at Magdala
Acquisition source: Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh