Amulet pendant; 2 cowries mounted on a small rectangle of leather, folded over to form a hole through which the remnants of a string of metal beads are just visible. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 22/11/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Amulet pendant; 2 cowries mounted on a small rectangle of leather, folded over to form a hole through which the remnants of a string of metal beads are just visible. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 22/11/2005]
Geographical reference: Zimbabwe
Africa > Eastern Africa > Zimbabwe; Mozambique
Africa > Eastern Africa > Mozambique; Frere Town
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, Material Metal, Material Bead
Dimensions: Width: max 22 mm, Length: max 25 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1899.83.18
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]

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