Leg bracelet; circular strip of animal skin with long greyish hair, with stringwork around the main circlet. Tied to .2 & .3. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 18/10/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Leg bracelet; circular strip of animal skin with long greyish hair, with stringwork around the main circlet. Tied to .2 & .3. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 18/10/2005]
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa
Person: Field collector Frederic John Newnham; PRM source Miss G.F. Newnham
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1907
Date collected: 1894 - 1907
Acquisition information: Donated: 1953
Materials and processes: Material Hair, Material String, Material Animal Fur Skin, Material Animal Skin, Process Braided, Process Knotted
Dimensions: Length: max 400 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1953.6.39.1 Other PRM accession number: 1953.6.39a
Research and responses: Related Documents File - 'List of native curios collected by F. J. Newnham, between 1894 and 1907', written by G. F. Newnham with additional information on a related photographic collection: 'The British Museum also holds the negatives of a certain number of photographs of the native locations whence the exhibits were collected in 1906. They seem to think these will be increasingly valuable, as my father caught the native way of living just before the transition period and the advent of modern aids . . . ' [GI 7/2/2002]

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