Two metal strigils bound at the handle with copper wire, attached with thin strips of leather to an armlet made from red, white and pink beads sewn onto a leather strip in a check pattern. [JP 29/10/2001]

Collection type: Object
Description: Two metal strigils bound at the handle with copper wire, attached with thin strips of leather to an armlet made from red, white and pink beads sewn onto a leather strip in a check pattern. [JP 29/10/2001]
Long description: Two metal strigils bound at the handle with copper wire, attached with thin strips of leather to an armlet made from red, white and pink beads sewn onto a leather strip in a check pattern. [JP 29/10/2001] Description taken from Conservation Card by Heather Richardson 16/11/2001 - Two metal strigils bound about the handle with copper wire. Leather armlet covered on one side with glass beads in white, red and pink. Two metal skin scrapers of ferrous metal are attached to one end. Scrapers have copper alloy wire decoration. (Heather Richardson 16/11/2001) [LKG 02/04/2009]
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Sarah Constance Silver; PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1906
Date collected: By 1906
Acquisition information: Donated: 03/1906
Materials and processes: Material Bead, Material Iron Metal, Material Copper Metal, Material Animal Leather Skin, Process Beadwork, Process Bound, Process Stitched
Dimensions: Width 132 mm, Length 275 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1906.20.140

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