Arm ornament; flexible circlet of copper wire coiled around a base of ?animal hair, with thicker copper beads clamped around the circlet for ornamentation. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 20/10/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Arm ornament; flexible circlet of copper wire coiled around a base of ?animal hair, with thicker copper beads clamped around the circlet for ornamentation. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 20/10/2005]
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa
Cultural groups: Tswana
Person: Field collector William John Burchell; PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History; PRM source Department of Geology, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Date
Date collected: ?1810 - 1815
Acquisition information: Transferred: 10/1897 Found unentered: 2004 - 2006
Materials and processes: Material Copper Metal, Material Metal Wire, Material Bead, Material Animal Hair, Process Wound, Process Coiled, Process Clamped
Dimensions: Diameter: max 66 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1897.86.64
Research and responses: Other items collected by WJ Burchell were given to the Ashmolean Museum by Burchell's sister, Miss Burchell, 1865 and later transferred to the PRM in 1886. [AP 31/8/99]
This type of ornament is illustrated on page 567 in 'Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa', by William John Burchell, 1824, Vol. II. [MJD 06/01/2014]

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