- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pair of ear ornaments, coils of thick brass wire. [El.B DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 09/11/2010]
- Person
- Field collector John Comyn Higgins
- Field collector Elsie Isabel Higgins
- PRM source Elsie Isabel Higgins
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1962
- Date collected
- By 1962
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1962
- Materials and processes
- Material Brass Metal, Process Coiled
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 45 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1962.7.34.1 Accession number: 1962.7.34.2
Search terms: Ornament, Ear Ornament
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