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1931.87.185

Ear ornament. Metal spiral ring with red and amethyst beads strung below and small crescent-shaped glass terminal.

1931.87.185

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Collection type
Object
Description
Ear ornament. Metal spiral ring with red and amethyst beads strung below and small crescent-shaped glass terminal.
Cultural groups
Garo
Person
Field collector George David Walker
PRM source George David Walker
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1931
Date collected
By 1931
Acquisition information
Donated: 1931
Materials and processes
Material Bead, Material Amethyst Stone, Material Glass, Process Strung
Dimensions
Length 100 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1931.87.185 Other numbers: 57
Associated publications
For a colour photograph of the four ear-pendants 1931.87.183 - .186, see Figure SW3 in 'The Studies of A. J. Arkell on the Movement of Beads in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in the 1930s', by Sara Withers, in International Bead & Beadwork Conference, 22-25 November 2007, Istanbul, edited by Jamey D. Allen and Valerie Hector, (no place [Istanbul]: Kadir Has University, no date [2007]), unpaginated. See also Withers's notes on this image on the second page of her text. Copy of volume in Balfour Library; photocopy of Withers's paper in RDF: Researchers: Withers. [JC 28 8 2008]

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