Ivory armlet. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 18/10/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Ivory armlet. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 18/10/2005]
Geographical reference: South Sudan
Africa > Eastern Africa > South Sudan; Bahr el Jebel Gondokoro
Cultural groups: Bari (Nilotic)
Person: Field collector William Leonard Stevenson Loat; PRM source William Leonard Stevenson Loat
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1903
Date collected: By 1903
Acquisition information: Donated: 1903
Materials and processes: Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Process Carved
Dimensions: Diameter: max 100 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1903.2.4
Research and responses: Gondokoro is located in Sudan on the Bahr el Jebel river, in the modern administrative district known as Bahr el Jebel, just northeast of Juba. At the time this object was collected, the Ugandan border lay just north of Gondokoro (it was moved further south in 1910), hence the association in the accessions book of this object with Uganda.
Loat probably was the collector as well as donor of this object, as he is known to have worked around Gondokoro during or before 1902 (see Boulenger, G.A., 1902, “List of the fishes collected by Mr. W.L.S. Loat at Gondokoro”, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (Ser. 7) 10(38):260-264) [RTS 13/8/2004].

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