1934.21.3

Collection type

Object

Description

Pendant string of beads. [MJD DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 19/11/2010]

Long description

Pendant string of beads. The pendant has two long white and brown glass beads, red and blue spherical glass beads and a carnelian bead. Nine pendants are stored together in a display box. [MJD DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 19/11/2010]

Geographical reference

Sudan, Republic of

Africa > Northern Africa > Sudan, Republic of

Darfur

Person

Field collector Anthony John Arkell

PRM source Anthony John Arkell

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1934

Date collected

By 1934

Acquisition information

Donated: 1934

Materials and processes

Material Glass, Material Cornelian Stone, Material String, Process Strung

Dimensions

Length: max 178 mm box, Width: max 153 mm box, Length 107 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1934.21.3

Research and responses

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica Online, Darfur is the name of a historical region of the Bilad

as-Sudan, a region roughly corresponding to the westernmost portion of the present-day Republic of The Sudan. [CW 29/3/2000]

The helix of the ear is the fleshy outer rim. [CW 30/3/2000]

Associated publications

For a colour photograph of the nine pendants 1934.21.1 - .9, see Figure SW4 in 'The Studies of A. J. Arkell on the Movement of Beads in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in the 1930s', by Sara Withers, in International Bead & Beadwork Conference, 22-25 November 2007, Istanbul, edited by Jamey D. Allen and Valerie Hector, (no place [Istanbul]: Kadir Has University, no date [2007]), unpaginated. See also Withers's notes on this image on the second page of her text. Copy of volume in Balfour Library; photocopy of Withers's paper in RDF: Researchers: Withers. [JC 28 8 2008]

Search terms: Ornament, Ear Ornament