head-dress
- Museum number
- Af1926,-.203
- Description
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(description from register)
Glass bead head dress strung on fibre, consisting of bands of rectangular pattern, and with a bead streamer terminating in large red beads.
- Production date
- 1885 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 39.50 centimetres
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Width: 25.50 centimetres
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Depth: 2 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register: "Made by Kimwera. Wife of the chief Msamwenda, Mudewa of the Kaguru village of Kisabi. J.T.L. 1885"
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1926
- Acquisition notes
- Af1926,-.157 to 213 is the African section of the larger ethnographic collection formed by Sir Cuthbert Peek (1855-1901, qv), much of which was sold to the BM (using the Christy Fund) by his son Sir Wilfred Peek (1884-1927) in 1926. Some are recorded as collected by J T Last in east central Africa [Tanganyika] in 1885, and it is highly likely that all items dated 1885 come from him, as well as other items from Tanganyika. The register records his notes about the ethnic groups and findspot, which must have been taken from old labels, but these are incomplete, and the attribution of other items is curatorial. The production dates of items from Last are entered on the database as circa 1885; the rest as circa 1875-1900.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1926,-.203
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Af1926C3.203 (old CDMS no.)