Cross
- Museum number:
- 5-10620
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050010620
- Accession number:
- Acc.4036
- Description:
- Pendant, Ethiopia. June 14, 1985. 5-10620, acc no. 4036, file code 5.1. Collector: Franklin H. Williams. Donor: Franklin H. Williams. Materials, techniques: cut and incised wood. Context of use: Associated with Coptic Christianity. Description: cross; wood, hand-held, incised straight and diagonal lines along perimeter, roughly cut. 30x11 cm. References: McKay, Roger. "Ethiopian Jewelry" African Arts. pp 36-39. 7:4 Summer 1974.
- Donor:
- Franklin H. Williams
- Collection place:
- Ethiopia
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Ethiopia
- Collector:
- Franklin H. Williams
- Collection date:
- June 14, 1985
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Crosses (visual works) and Pendants (jewelry)
- Function:
- 5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
- Accession date:
- June 1985
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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