Ring
- Museum number:
- 5-3437
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050003437
- Alternate number:
- B-2061 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.1807
- Description:
- copper ring; twisted; used for “medicine”; 7/8” diameter
- Donor:
- William Russell Bascom
- Collection place:
- Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Africa; Nigeria; Oyo; Yoruba
- Culture or time period:
- Yoruba
- Collector:
- William Russell Bascom
- Collection date:
- 1951
- Materials:
- Copper (metal)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Rings (finger jewelry)
- Function:
- 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
- Accession date:
- 1963
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- diameter 2.223 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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