spectacles;
model;
jewellery
- Museum number
- Af1987,03.1
- Description
-
Register 1987
A pair of gold-plated spectacles.
- Production date
- 1980 (circa)
- Dimensions
-
Height: 4.20 centimetres
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Width: 12.30 centimetres
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Depth: 13 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Ethdoc 57 - two postcards from the Ivory Coast showing similar sunglasses being worn.
Register 1987
A pair of gold-plated spectacles.
Baule (Eth. Doc. consisting of two postcards showing chiefs wearing similar glasses), Ivory Coast. Modern costume jewellery of this kind is now popular with chiefs in the Ivory Coast.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
1991, BM Room 91, Collecting in the 20th Century
- Acquisition date
- 1987
- Acquisition notes
- Af1987,03.1 to 33 is a group of objects collected by the Keeper, M D McLeod, in west Africa in February 1987. Most of them are of modern manufacture. See Eth.Doc.57.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1987,03.1
