Piece of copper wire strung with 9 lion teeth plus one separate tooth that has broken off the wire. Possibly a trophy ornament for ankle or arm. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 30/11/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Piece of copper wire strung with 9 lion teeth plus one separate tooth that has broken off the wire. Possibly a trophy ornament for ankle or arm. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 30/11/2005]
Geographical reference: Africa
Africa
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1841?, uncertain
Date collected: By 1841 ?
Acquisition information: Transferred: 10/02/1886
Materials and processes: Material Lion Tooth Cat Animal, Material Copper Metal, Material Metal Wire, Process Drilled, Process Strung
Dimensions: Length: max 80 mm tooth
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.528.1
Research and responses: It seems likely that all the items given by Mrs (Anna Margaret) Birkbeck [née Gardner] (circa 1794-?) to the Ashmolean Museum, including those like this later transferred to the PRM, had belonged to her late husband George Birkbeck (1776-1841) and can thus be given be regarded as having been made and collected by 1841. [JC 22 12 2010]