armlet
- Museum number
- Af1893,0803.14
- Description
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Armlet formed of a number of penannular rings of iron, copper and brass, threaded on a flexible band.
- Production date
- 1890 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 0.80 centimetres
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Width: 7.30 centimetres
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Depth: 6.90 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1893
- Acquisition notes
- Af1893,0803.1 to 17 were given by Alfred Sharpe, and is described in the Register as a collection of "bows and arrows from Lake Mweru". Sharpe had visited that area (Katanga region) in 1890, on the west side of Lake Mweru in the modern Democratic Republic of Congo (the east side is in Zambia).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1893,0803.14