Decoration for a mule; straps of purple leather lined with hide, from which are hung 19 short straps bearing gold coloured medallions. [MJD 27/11/2009]

Collection type: Object
Description: Decoration for a mule; straps of purple leather lined with hide, from which are hung 19 short straps bearing gold coloured medallions. [MJD 27/11/2009]
Long description: Decoration for a mule; straps of purple leather lined with hide, from which are hung 19 short straps bearing gold coloured medallions. The straps form a circle; it has two iron buckles. At opposite sides of the circle are a short leather loop and a strap of leather. The leather is stitched to the hide with purple thread. Along the belt are pieces of gold coloured metal clasped to the leather. These measure approximately 27 mm in length by 19 mm in width. The medallions and rectangular metal pieces are decorated with symbols raised from the surface. [MJD 27/11/2009]
Geographical reference: Ethiopia
Africa > Eastern Africa > Ethiopia
Person: Field collector Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger; PRM source Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1909-1914
Date collected: ?1909-1914
Acquisition information: Donated: 1945
Materials and processes: Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Animal Hide Skin, Material Brass Metal, Material Iron Metal, Material Pigment, Process Stitched, Process Dyed, Process Cast, Process Forged (Metal), Process Embossed
Dimensions: Length: max 870 mm, Depth: max 75 mm, Width: max 150 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1945.9.58
Research and responses: For a brief account of the collections donated to the PRM by Wilfred Thiesiger, see 'An Incidental Collection: Objects Donated by Wilfred Thesiger to the Pitt Rivers Museum', by Jeremy Coote, in Wilfred Thesiger in Africa, edited by Christopher Morton and Philip N. Grover (London: Harper Press, 2010), pp. 116-26. [JC 21 12 2010]

Search terms: Ornament, Animal Gear

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