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1965.1.15

Armlet to drive away disease. The armlet is made of a ring, possibly comprising plant fibre. The ring is bound in a piece of textile, with a clay box attached.

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1965.1.15

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Collection type
Object
Description
Armlet to drive away disease. The armlet is made of a ring, possibly comprising plant fibre. The ring is bound in a piece of textile, with a clay box attached.
Long description
Armlet to drive away disease. The armlet is made of a ring, possibly comprising plant fibre. The ring is bound in a piece of textile, with a clay box attached. A piece of glass is embedded into the clay box [NC 28/07/2015]
Person
Field collector Richard Edward Dennett
PRM source Folk-Lore Society
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1895
Date collected
By 1895
Acquisition information
Donated: 1965
Materials and processes
Material Plant Fibre, Material Textile, Material Clay, Material Pigment, Material Glass, Material Mirror Glass, Process Painted, Process Woven
Dimensions
Diameter: max 122 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1965.1.15 Other numbers: D.1900.39
Research and responses

This object was looked at by a group of students from Regent's Park College, Oxford on August 6 2015 [NC 12/08/2015]

Associated publications
For a consideration of the evidence for concluding that the Congo material in the Folklore Society donation (i.e. collection 1965.1) was collected by Richard Edward Dennett in the 1890s and given by him to the Folklore Society in or around 1895, see 'Hidden Charms: Writing On, Around, and About a Congo Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum', by Sally Ayres, in Journal of Museum Ethnography, no. 25 (2012), pp. 55-63. (Photocopy in RDF.) [JC 18 4 2013] For a consideration of the evidence for concluding that the Congo material in the Folklore Society donation (i.e. collection 1965.1) was collected by Richard Edward Dennett in the 1890s and given by him to the Folklore Society in or around 1895, see pages 12 (note 23), 29-30, 183 (note 185), 241-244, 308, of 'Hidden Histories and Multiple Meanings: The Richard Dennett Collection at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter', by Sara Craig Ayres (Plymouth: Pymouth University, Ph.D. thesis, 2012). (Printouts of relevant pages in RDF.) [JC 7 8 2013]

Search terms: Religion, Ornament, Medicine, Arm Ornament, Amulet

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