- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Brass bit, with incised geometric decoration.
- Cultural groups
- Tuareg Berber
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1936
- Date collected
- 1934 - 1936
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1954
- Materials and processes
- Material Brass Metal, Process Incised, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length: max 225 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1954.5.179 Other numbers: 37D.236C
Search terms: Animal Gear, Bit Animal Harness
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