?Head ornament. [AB [OPS move] 12/12/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: ?Head ornament. [AB [OPS move] 12/12/2016]
Long description: ?Head ornament. In the form of a thick rigid round-sectioned ring of fibre string wound round a curved strip of bamboo, the greater part of the surface, with the exception of a narrow band on the inner side, covered with small globular red beads, with a smaller number of white and blue beads forming a geometrical pattern. [AB [OPS move] 12/12/2016]
Geographical reference: Cameroon
Africa > Central Africa > Cameroon; Bamenda
Person: Field collector Mervyn David Waldegrave Jeffreys; PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1942
Date collected: By 1942
Acquisition information: Donated: 1942
Materials and processes: Material String, Material Plant Fibre, Material Bamboo Plant, Material Bead, Process Beadwork
Dimensions: Depth: max 35 mm, Width: max 195 mm, Length: max 210 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.13.1527 Other numbers: 227

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