Narrow leaf-shaped ear or nose ornament in white metal [RTS 1/3/2005].

Collection type: Object
Description: Narrow leaf-shaped ear or nose ornament in white metal [RTS 1/3/2005].
Long description: Oval leaf-shaped body with pointed tip, with cut part-way down the centre of the length, and a tapering tail at the top bent into a loop [RTS 1/3/2005].
Geographical reference: Uganda
Africa > Eastern Africa > Uganda; Karamoja
Cultural groups: Labwor; Turkana
Person: Field collector Samuel Peach Powell; PRM source Samuel Peach Powell
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1940
Date collected: By 1940
Acquisition information: Loaned: 1940
Materials and processes: Material Aluminium Metal, Material Tin Metal, Process Hammered, Process Bent
Dimensions: Length: max 91 mm, Weight 7.6 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1940.7.060
Research and responses: The Labwor live on the border between Acholi and Karamoja; Labwor is a dialect of Acholi and the Labwor appear to have adopted much of their lifestyle as well. Presumably they are associated with the area known as the Labwor Hills, a mountain range in northeastern Uganda; the surrounding area is also known as Karamoja after the former name of the district [sources: http://www.country-studies.com/uganda/eastern-nilotic-language-groups.html; http://www.min.uni-kiel.de/petrographie/schenk/ugandaweb/index1.html?/petrographie/schenk/ugandaweb/labwor.html, RTS 9/8/2004].
For a broader version, see 1940.7.059 [RTS 1/3/2005].

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