- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Unperforated somit bead. White and opaque in the centre with dark brown ends. [SM 28/10/2010]
- Geographical reference
- Northern Darfur El Fasher Khartoum [Idar-Oberstein]
- Cultural groups
- German
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1948
- Date collected
- By 1948
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 26/10/1971
- Dimensions
- Width: max 5 mm, Length: max 20 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1971.15.601.2 Other numbers: 3A
- Research and responses
This bead type may be related to the earlier term, psomit, used by Arab and European traders in mid 19th century Sudan (P. Santi & R. Hill 1980, The Europeans in the Sudan 1834-1878, p. 123). Judging by their descriptions, somit appear to be banded beads, many of which are cylindrical or barrel-shaped; imitation somit were also produced in glass in Germany and Czechoslovakia [RTS 29/1/2004].
1971.15.601.2
Unperforated somit bead. White and opaque in the centre with dark brown ends. [SM 28/10/2010]
1971.15.601.2
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