armlet
- Museum number
- Af.4696
- Description
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Armlet made of strings of fibre tied over fibre; fastened to it is a knot of gum containing a piece of looking-glass.
- Production date
- 19thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Height: 4.30 centimetres
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Width: 10.20 centimetres
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Depth: 11.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register suggestion "Fernando Po - Calabar". Replaced by W B Fagg's suggestion of the Lower Congo.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Acquisition notes
- Christy numbers 4677 to 4806 were given to the BM by the Lords of the Admiralty in 1855 on the closure of the naval Haslar Hospital (qv) in Gosport. There is no record of who gave it to the hospital, or where it had come from.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af.4696
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af186?C1.4696 (old CDMS no.)