bead
- Museum number
- Af1946,18.276
- Description
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Register 1946:
Group of disc-beads made of plastic, fitted onto sliver of midrib (palm-leaf).
- Production date
- 1946 (purchased)
- Dimensions
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Height: 8.10 centimetres
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Width: 11.70 centimetres
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Depth: 1.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1946:
Plastic red beads, discoid, on a length of palmleaf midrib. As supplied by the United Africa Company.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Acquisition notes
- Af1946,18.1 to 397 is a collection of contemporary objects purchased in Nigerian markets by H J Braunholtz, the Keeper of the Department of Ethnography in the BM, on a study visit in 1946. The Register contains his notes on the local name, function and place of acquisition of each item. Af1946,18.1 to 244 were registered in 1946 or later. Af1946,245 to 380 were added in 1957, still using the 1946 register sequence. Nos.383 to 397 were added at a yet later date.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1946,18.276