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1961.1.54.12

Plain ivory ring with a carved incision dividing it onto two bands. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 26/5/2005]

1961.1.54.12

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Collection type
Object
Description
Plain ivory ring with a carved incision dividing it onto two bands. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 26/5/2005]
Person
Field collector Samuel William Pring
PRM source Katherine Mary Maybury
PRM source A.W.S. Pring
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1920
Date collected
1919 - 1920
Acquisition information
Donated: 1961
Materials and processes
Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Process Carved, Process Incised
Dimensions
Diameter: max 20 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1961.1.54.12
Research and responses

Related Documents File - Letters, dated 2 October 1960 - 8 January 1961, from the donor regarding the donation of a collection made in the Belgian Congo and Australasia by her father S.W. Pring "in the years 1919 - 20... [he] returned with a collection of native weapons, ornaments, etc., and a diary." [EB 19/2/2002]

Search terms: Ornament, Finger Ring

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