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1934.21.5

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

1934.21.5

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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, a blue spherical glass bead and two garnet beads. There is a cylindrical brass bead and a carnelian bead at the end. Nine pendants are stored together in a display box. [MJD DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 19/11/2010]
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 Brass Metal, Material Garnet Stone, Material Cornelian Stone, Material String, Process Strung
Dimensions
Length 117 mm, Length: max 178 mm box, Width: max 153 mm box
Object numbers
Accession number: 1934.21.5
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]

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