- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Leg ornament; flexible ring of coiled iron wire. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 12/10/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Nguni
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1864
- Date collected
- Circa. 1864
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1919 Found unentered: Found unentered
- Materials and processes
- Material Brass Metal, Material Metal Wire, Process Wound, Process Coiled
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 115 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1919.29.162
- Research and responses
It is not clear from the Accession Book how this object relates to the note at the beginning of the series of accession entries which states they were collected in South Africa. [MR 8/2/2000]
Search terms: Ornament, Leg Ornament
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