- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Hollow brass armlet or anklet of circular section, in 2 semi-circular parts that slot together, with jingling pellets inside. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 15/11/2005]
- Geographical reference
- 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 Brass Metal, Process Cast
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 80 mm inner, Length: max 125 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1906.20.264
Search terms: Ornament, Music, Arm Ornament, Leg Ornament, Musical Instrument
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