- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Cornelian piece, square in section and tapering towards pointed ends. Orange and red-brown in colour. [SM 10/11/2010]
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1948
- Date collected
- By 1948
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 26/10/1971
- Materials and processes
- Material Cornelian Stone, Process Flaked
- Dimensions
- Width: max 12 mm, Length: max 70 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1971.15.665.4
- Associated publications
- For a black-and-white photograph of 1971.15.665.1 -.8, see page 79 of 'The Arkell Collection', by S. Withers, in Ornament, Vol. 21, no. 3 (1988). The caption states that this group was sent to Arkell by Rhanchodlal Girdhurial of Bombay. [RS 5/1/2004; JC 28 8 2008] For a colour photograph of seven of the pendants 1971.15.665.1 - .7, see Figure SW5 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]
1971.15.665.4
Cornelian piece, square in section and tapering towards pointed ends. Orange and red-brown in colour. [SM 10/11/2010]
1971.15.665.4
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