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1899.83.15

Hide armlet covered with small cowrie shells.

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1899.83.15

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Collection type
Object
Description
Hide armlet covered with small cowrie shells.
Cultural groups
Manyika
Person
Field collector Mary Wase Bailey
PRM source Missionary Bazaar held in Oxford
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1899
Date collected
1899
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1899
Materials and processes
Material Cowrie Shell, Material Animal Hide Skin, Process Stitched
Dimensions
Diameter: max 125 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1899.83.15
Research and responses

In an email (not kept) to the Museum dated 18 May 2017, the collector's great grandson Charles Crawford wrote: 'Ref objects 1899.83.12 to object 1899.83.24 My Great Grandmother M W Bailey (Mary Wase Bailey) collected these objects whilst she was serving with the Church Missionary Society in Freretown Mombasa East Africa. She was the first lady Missionary of the Church Missionary Society to travel to East Africa in 1885. She served in East Africa from 1885 to 1915. I assume she bought the objects back to England to sell to raise funds to feed the starving East Africans around Mombasa.' [JC 19 5 2017]

Search terms: Ornament, Arm Ornament

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