IDNO

P.50129.ACH2

Description

Half-length portrait of four young Kunama women wearing cloth sarongs, shell and beaded neck, and arm ornaments, a shell? nose ornament, and metal ear ornaments. The women’s hair is rolled or plaited and adorned with shells and pins? / combs?. [JD 17/6/2009]

Place

E Africa; Eritrea; Keren [Cheren-Asmara]

Cultural Affliation

Kunama [historically Cunama]

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

Collection Name

Unmounted Haddon Collection

Source

Duke of WellingtonClarke, Louis C. G.

Format

Postcard

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.50111.ACH2 to P.50140.ACH2 were found in envelope now marked C210/8/. This was found in another envelope now marked C210/ which came from the wooden drawer 1.

"Eritrean natives"; "Given by the Duke of Wellington"; "LCGC" [manuscript in ink on paper] was found with P.50126.ACH2 to P.50129.ACH2.