ornament(?);
crotal(?)
- Museum number
- Af1979,18.10
- Description
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Group of 5 helmet-shaped ornaments (?) or crotals (?) made of brass (?), of which 3 have coiled wire rods attached; also a group of detached single and linked coiled wire rods.
- Curator's comments
- See Acquisition Notes.
Donors' Book gives "Found in W B Fagg's room, from Igbo-Ugwu".Torn scrap of paper with object no.1 reads "Carpenter,District Officer at Isuoffia" etc - this matches provenance of 1956 Af.15 collection. Additionally, a location-index card exists in Benin Bronze Room numbered 1956 Af.15.6 -"miscellaneous pieces" but there is no such entry in the Register - it may be that the 1979 Af.18 collection = the intended no.6.
F = Donors' Book.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1956
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1979,18.10
- Additional IDs
-
Miscellaneous number: Af1956,15 (?)