- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Iron armlet with incised herringbone designs.
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Maasai
- Person
- Field collector Frederick John Jackson
- PRM source Ipswich Museum
- PRM source Patricia Margaret Maclaren Butler
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1966
- Date collected
- By 1966
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1966
- Materials and processes
- Material Iron Metal, Process Incised, Process Bent
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 75 mm, Height: max 12 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1966.1.959
Search terms: Ornament, Arm Ornament
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