Accession No
1927.336 B
Description
Earring or earplug. Ring of wood or horn flaring at upper surface and carved with concentric grooves; ring of resin or gum inside, with a row of small spherical seeds set into it; inside the ring of resin is a coiled length of leaf or plant material.
Place
Africa; East Africa; Tanzania; Zanzibar; Pemba Island
Period
Source
Matola, Leslie [field collector]; Ridgeway, William (Professor Sir) [bequeather]
Department
Anth
Reference Numbers
1927.336 B
Cultural Affliation
Material
?Wood; ?Horn; Plant; Leaf; Seed; Resin
Local Term
Measurements
44mm
Events
Loan (Exhibition)
Exhibition Body Art exhibition, January-July 2006.
Installation week: 23rd-27th January.
Last day of exhibition: 2nd July; de-installation: 3rd July.
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Related Documents)
Label for 1927.336 A-B: 'Earring, Pemba Island Zanzibar / Leslie Matola, 19122 [sic, probably 1912]'.
Event Date 1912
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 1927.336 A-B: 'Two black wooden circular ear plugs from Pemba.'
Event Date 1927
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Earring or earplug. Ring of wood or horn flaring at upper surface and carved with concentric grooves; ring of resin or gum inside, with a row of small spherical seeds set into it; inside the ring of resin is a coiled length of leaf or plant material.
Event Date 4/4/2022
Author: Katrina Dring
FM:296082
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