Description (Labels & Markings)
Attached historic label reads, with text written in black ink: 'MASHONA / BANGLES'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Two bangles. Metal of bangles made of coiled metal wire, possibly copper alloy.
Event Date 16/10/2008
Author: Jane Pettitt

Context (Other owners)
(Bio): Miss Joyce Baker is the daughter of Reverend H.J. Baker who was a Methodist missionary to the Mashona tribe, in the early twentieth century, (1904-1919), in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
Event Date 16/10/2008
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
The 'Methodist Who's Who' (n.d. ?1912/1913) notes Rev. H. J. Baker as Herbert John Baker, a pioneer missionary in Rhodesia, who worked at the Matabeleland Gold Mines, as Master of the Public School, Selukwe and then in Mashonaland.
The material was all identified as Mashona on entry to the Museum but may also have been been acquired in Matabeleland or Selukwe, now known as Shurugwi.
Event Date 15/4/2019
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Two circular coiled metal bangles (A-B), possibly of copper alloy, golden in appearance. Both show signs of historic damage.
Event Date 14/2/2023
Author: Jane Pettitt