Earrings

Museum number:

5-784a,b

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Accession number:

Acc.977

Description:

Earring: Brass: woman’s coiled

Donor:

University of California African Expedition

Collection place:

Mushuru, Kajiado, Kenya

Verbatim coll. place:

Masai, from Mushuru

Culture or time period:

Maasai people

Collector:

University of California African Expedition

Collection date:

1947-1948

Materials:

Brass (alloy)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Earrings (jewelry)

Function:

2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements

Accession date:

1949

Department:

Africa (except Ancient Egypt)

Loans:

S1961-1962 #55: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (March 20, 1962–March 20, 1962), S1963-1964 #13: Cole Elementary School/Beverly D. Deffes (September 12, 1963–September 13, 1963), S1965-1966 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert F. G. Spier (June 16, 1966–July 29, 1966), and S1971-1972 #9: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (July 28, 1971–August 31, 1971)

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