nose-ring
- Museum number
- Af,+.7136.a-i
- Description
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Group of nine brass circular nose-rings; circular section, terminating at one end in a polygon of brass with a pyramidal apex.
- Production date
- 1885 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 2.80 centimetres (a)
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Height: 2.60 centimetres (b)
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Height: 2.70 centimetres (c)
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Height: 2.70 centimetres (d)
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Height: 2.50 centimetres (e)
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Height: 3.10 centimetres (f)
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Height: 2.70 centimetres (g)
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Height: 2.10 centimetres (h)
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Height: 2.40 centimetres (i)
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Width: 2.60 centimetres (a)
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Width: 2.60 centimetres (b)
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Width: 2.90 centimetres (c)
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Width: 2.60 centimetres (d)
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Width: 2.40 centimetres (e)
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Width: 3 centimetres (f)
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Width: 2.50 centimetres (g)
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Width: 2.10 centimetres (h)
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Width: 2.20 centimetres (i)
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Depth: 0.80 centimetres (a)
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Depth: 0.80 centimetres (b)
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Depth: 0.70 centimetres (c)
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Depth: 0.80 centimetres (d)
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Depth: 0.70 centimetres (e)
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Depth: 0.80 centimetres (f)
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Depth: 0.80 centimetres (g)
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Depth: 0.80 centimetres (h)
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Depth: 0.80 centimetres (i)
- Curator's comments
- NB do not confuse with single nose-ring +.7136, a separate item from this group of nine.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1887
- Acquisition notes
- Af,+.7079 to Af,+.7466 is a large collection made by J T Last in the Mozambique/Tanganyika border areas around Lake Nyasa in 1885-7. It was purchased from him by A W Franks, and was registered in 1887 and 1890 (the latter group being numbers Af,+.7368 to Af,+.7466). The Slips record the area in which the objects were acquired (usually described as South East Africa, Mozambique, or Zambezia) but these can be difficult to map to modern political borders.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,+.7136.a-i
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af1887C2.17136a-i (old CDMS no.)
