hair-pin
- Museum number
- Af,+.8273
- Description
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Hair-pin made of ivory.
- Production date
- 1879-81 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 19 centimetres
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Width: 2 centimetres
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Depth: 2 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See comment on Af,+.8268.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1882 (March)
- Acquisition notes
- Af,+.8257 to 8456 constitute the first collection formed by Frank Lupton Bey (qv) in 1879-81 in the region of the Nile headwaters, where he became the deputy of Emin Pasha. The area covers parts of what are now the South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic and Uganda and Kenya. They were all registered as from 'East Central Africa' with an occasional note of a more specific source. Lupton sent the collection to his friend T P Hearne in London, who sold them on his behalf to A W Franks, who immediately gave them to the BM in March 1882.
Franks' original list survives on BM headed paper (numbered from 1 to 95, plus 11 spears) of the items delivered by T P Hearne, and this sometimes records more information than is on the slips.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,+.8273
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af1882C2.8273-8274 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: 23 (Lupton Bey number)