badge
- Museum number
- Af.3075
- Description
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An elephant's tail with an ivory ring.
- Production date
- 1865 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 43 centimetres
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Width: 19.50 centimetres
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Depth: 5 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Slip records: "... presented to Lieut. M L Sparks, 19 Regiment, by Gaika the late King of the Kafir nation as badge of office on his nomination as Captain of the Kafir Nation."
Chief Ngqika or Gaika died in 1828.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1865
- Acquisition notes
- Perhaps transferred from the United Service Museum in 1866.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af.3075
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af186?C1.3075 (old CDMS no.)