bead(?);
badge(?);
electrotype
- Museum number
- Af1956,09.15.a-b
- Description
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Register 1956:
Electrotype copy of gold hexagonal bead or badge with relief designs; both sides.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 3.50 inches
- Curator's comments
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Original bead or badge is in British Museum collections.
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Register 1956:
do ['ditto' from Af`1956,09.14:"Electrotype"] copy of gold hexagonal bead or badge with relief designs; both sides (a,b)
Casts from akrafokonmu. Soulbearers' badges, from the Ashanti court, obtained during the Ashanti wars.
GOLD COAST.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1956
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1956,09.15.a-b
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: V&A1901-223,223a (Victoria & Albert Museum)