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)
Small round silver box with lid. The box is decorated with two bands of filigree work, one around each edge. In between these is a band of repeated, soldered decoration, each element consisting of two pieces of twisted silver wire looped next to each other and terminating in a common solid circle. The lid, which is separate, has a decoration which echoes the looped wire theme. There is an upright ring at the centre of the lid which may perhaps once have been used for a chain, but there is no chain present, and no visible means of connecting it to the box.
Event Date 3/11/2004
Author: maa