Bracelet
- Museum number:
- 5-14081
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050014081
- Alternate number:
- B-2006 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.3589
- Description:
- bracelet. braided leather with cowry shells. dm. 7 cm. (appr.)
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Collection place:
- Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Africa; Nigeria; Yoruba; collected at Oyo
- Culture or time period:
- Yoruba
- Collector:
- William Russell Bascom
- Collection date:
- 1951
- Materials:
- Leather and Shell (animal material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Bracelets (jewelry)
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Accession date:
- December 8, 1980
- Context of use:
- for Shopona, God of smallpox
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- diameter 7 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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