head-ring
- Museum number
- Af1921,0512.1
- Description
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Bamboo head-ring with a fringe of bamboo tubes surmounted by banana seeds attached.
- Production date
- 1921 (or soon before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 4 centimetres
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Width: 22 centimetres
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Depth: 19 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register: "Ceremonial headdress worn by priest or priestess of the Nabingi cult".
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1921
- Acquisition notes
- Af1921,0512.1 to 31 were given by Captain J E Philipps, MC, a British district commissioner in the Kigezi district in south-west Uganda from 1919. Almost all the objects come from Rwanda, and most were made by the Tutsi. This area had been part of German East Africa, and in 1921 was administered from the Belgian Congo.
See Eth.Doc.10 for a detailed list of the whole collection: some of this information has been entered in the register, but has not (yet) been transcribed onto the database.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1921,0512.1