ear-ring
- Museum number
- Oc.6914
- Description
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Ornament (ear), child's ear-ring of wood, incised with designs on three sides but not on fourth.
- Production date
- 1870 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 2.60 centimetres
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Width: 10.30 centimetres
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Depth: 1.40 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Christy Correspondence - queries and notes on this collection:
'Earrings, Mulgrave Id.
How worn? Through the lobe of the ear, in children the object being to split the lobe entirely. The specimens were in the ears of two children when purchased.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Acquisition notes
- Pres By A W Franks Nov. 9 1870 (Kennett Coll.).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.6914
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc1870C1.6914 (old CDMS no.)
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Miscellaneous number: Oc1870C1109.292
