Earrings

Museum number:
5-14237
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3650
Description:
Earrings. "Saqan" (something hanging from ears). Aluminum ends connected by copper coil. Length 3 centimeters. Made by blacksmith of Barabaig group, purchased. Used by women as decorative jewelry, earrings are threaded through hole in ears. Owner of Manda-Bayo clan.
Donor:
Jean Colvin and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Mbulu District, Tanzania
Verbatim coll. place:
Tanzania; Mbulu district; Iraqw people
Culture or time period:
Iraqw People
Collector:
Jean Colvin
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Earrings (jewelry)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
August 1982
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Earrings, accession number 5-14237, described as Earrings. "Saqan" (something hanging from ears). Aluminum ends connected by copper coil. Length 3 centimeters. Made by blacksmith of Barabaig group, purchased. Used by women as decorative jewelry, earrings are threaded through hole in ears. Owner of Manda-Bayo clan.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Earrings, accession number 5-14237, described as Earrings. "Saqan" (something hanging from ears). Aluminum ends connected by copper coil. Length 3 centimeters. Made by blacksmith of Barabaig group, purchased. Used by women as decorative jewelry, earrings are threaded through hole in ears. Owner of Manda-Bayo clan.

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