- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ivory finger ring with black circle and dot design. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 16/3/2005]
- Person
- Maker Pupils at donor's Mission School
- Field collector William Coleman Piercy
- Field collector Universities' Mission to Central Africa
- PRM source William Coleman Piercy
- PRM source Faith Piercy
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1935
- Date collected
- By 1935
- Acquisition information
- Bequeathed: 1935 Acquired: 1939
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Impressed, Process Painted
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 25 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1939.3.138.3
- Research and responses
Related Documents File - Three letters from Mrs. [?Faith] Piercy to Thomas Penniman and Beatrice Blackwood to organise the transfer of the articles her husband bequeathed to the Pitt Rivers Museum. RDF also includes notes on 'Chinyansa specimens, Nyassaland (KOTAKOTA)' and 'Specimens from other regions', and additional 'Notes by William Coleman Piercy'. [GI 10/12/2001]
Search terms: Ornament, Finger Ring
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