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1900.74.2

Armlet of brass, cylindrical openwork.

1900.74.2

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Collection type
Object
Description
Armlet of brass, cylindrical openwork.
Geographical reference
Nigeria
Africa > Western Africa > Nigeria
Benin City
Cultural groups
Edo
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source George Fabian Lawrence
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1900
Date collected
By 1900 probably 1897
Acquisition information
Purchased: 06/1900
Materials and processes
Material Brass Metal, Process Lost Wax Cast
Dimensions
Height: max 140 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1900.74.2
Research and responses

This object was purchased for the Pitt Rivers Museum from George Fabian Lawrence in June 1900. Lawrence was an antiquities dealer who ran a shop in Wandsworth, London, through which many objects taken from Benin City in 1897 passed. [JMC 14/04/2023]

Associated publications
Apparently not listed in Philip J. C. Dark, An Illustrated Catalogue of Benin Art, Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, 1982.

Search terms: Ornament, Arm Ornament

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