Accession No
1947.1750
Description
String of glass and shell beads.
Place
Africa; North East Africa; [Somaliland]; ?Somalia; ?Ethiopia
Period
Source
Beck, Horace J. (Mrs) [donor]; Beck, Horace J. [collector]; Curle, A. T. [collector]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1947.1750; 2598 [Beck Coll.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Glass; Shell
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Found together / assemblage)
Beck notes on catalogue card 2595 that these beads come from the same sites as objects 2595 (1947.1764), 2596 (1947.1763) and 2597.
Event Date
Author: Bryony Smerdon
Context (Other owners)
Beck notes on his catalogue card that the beads were 'presented by A.T. Curle Esq'.
Event Date
Author: Bryony Smerdon
Context (Field collection)
The Beck catalogue card notes that the beads are 'from sites of ruined Arab towns near the Somaliland-Ethiopian boundary 120 miles South of Zeila'. An exact provenance for these objects is therefore uncertain and the general regions of modern Somalia and Ethiopia have been added to the Place field.
Event Date
Author: Bryony Smerdon
Description (Physical description)
Beck catalogue card: 'String of glass beads (a few shell also)'.
Event Date
Author: Bryony Smerdon
Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'String of glass beads and few shell beads'.
Event Date 1947
Author: Bryony Smerdon
FM:279978
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