Description (Physical description)
The accretions found on pieces in this collection, in addition to the appearance of the silver, suggest to Anita Herle that the metal used is a mixture of silver and other metals, possibly among them copper.
Event Date 3/11/2004
Author: Alana Edgeworth

Context (Field collection)
Mrs. Barbara Spalding and her husband Michael worked as English teachers in Taiz, Yemen, from 1997-98 during which time she collected silver and talked to the men in the market silver shops.
Event Date 3/11/2004
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Silver box in the shape of a tear-drop, with lid attached by a chain. Both the box and the lid are covered in filigree, the body more heavily so. The main pattern on the box is a repeating pattern of figures of eight, made from twisted wire, with small circles in each end and outside the central meeting point of the ‘8’. The lid is dominated by a simple flower-like shape outlined by twisted wire, with ‘petals’ meeting at a silver boss in the centre.
Event Date 3/11/2004
Author: maa