- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- .Twill plaited arm band of dark plant fibre with overlay pattern in orchid stem. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 23/11/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Anne Brown
- Field collector Herbert Alfred Brown
- PRM source Museum of Mankind
- PRM source British Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1938
- Date collected
- 1938 - 1970
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 03/05/1990
- Materials and processes
- Material Plant Fibre, Material Orchid Stem Plant, Process Twill Plaited, Process Basketry, Process Overlay
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 80 mm, Width: max 23 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1990.22.7
Search terms: Ornament, Basketry, Arm Ornament
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