Iron chain-link horse-bit with jaw-ring and plaited leather reins with fringe at end.

Collection type: Object
Description: Iron chain-link horse-bit with jaw-ring and plaited leather reins with fringe at end.
Geographical reference: Gambia
Africa > Western Africa > Gambia; Senegal
Africa > Western Africa > Senegal
Cultural groups: Mandinka
Person: Field collector George Chardin Denton; PRM source George Chardin Denton
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1902
Date collected: By 1902
Acquisition information: Donated: 1902
Materials and processes: Material Iron Metal, Material Animal Leather Skin, Process Plaited, Process Incised, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Length: max 1950 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1902.58.4
Research and responses: According to “African ethnonyms: index to art-producing peoples of Africa” by Daniel P. Biebuyck, Susan Kelliher and Linda McRae (G.K. Hall & Co.: New York, 1996), the Mandingo are now known as the Manding, and populations can be found in The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal; the River Gambia runs through The Gambia and Senegal, and thus these two countries are suggested as provenances. [CW 9/12/99]

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