Wrist ornament; wide penannular brass band incised with repeating pattern of leaves arranged in crosses. Serrated ends bent back. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 31/10/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Wrist ornament; wide penannular brass band incised with repeating pattern of leaves arranged in crosses. Serrated ends bent back. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 31/10/2005]
Geographical reference: Angola
Africa > Central Africa > Angola
Person: Field collector Antoinette Powell-Cotton; Field collector Diana Powell-Cotton; PRM source Antoinette Powell-Cotton
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1937
Date collected: 1936 - 1937
Acquisition information: Donated: 1941
Materials and processes: Material Brass Metal, Process Incised
Dimensions: Height: max 39 mm, Diameter: max 59 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1941.12.98 Other numbers: 37.41
Research and responses: According to ‘African Ethnonyms’ (1996) the current group name for Umbundu is Ovimbundu.
According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, Percy H. G. Powell-Cotton was a late 19th century - early 20th century English explorer of Central Africa. The collector and donors of the material catalogued in this entry, Miss A Powell-Cotton and Miss D. Powell-Cotton may possibly be his daughters? [Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica] [MR 3/4/2000]

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