- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wrist ornament; penannular copper band incised with cross-hatched lozenge & zig-zag designs. [EC 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/10/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Kwanyama
- 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 Copper Metal, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 82 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1941.12.137 Other numbers: 36.1756
- Research and responses
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]
Search terms: Ornament, Arm Ornament
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