anklet

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Object Type
Museum number: 2012,6030.5.a-b
Description: Pair of silver hinged anklets; hollow and tubular and decorated with a band of chased and punched floral designs with alternating lozenge- and quatrefoil-shaped nielloed cartouches. The floral areas around the cartouches are gilded. The rims of the anklets include alternating nielloed and gilded bands. Designed to open from the front with a small pin closure. Anklet (b) is missing its pin. Worn in paired sets.
Production date: 1900s-1920s (Omani sultanate period)
Production place: Made in: Zanzibar (town)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Zanzibar (island)
Materials: silver; gold; niello
Technique: chased; punched; nielloed; gilded
Dimensions: Diameter: 8 centimetres (average); Height: 3 centimetres (average); Weight: 73 grammes (a); Weight: 72 grammes (b)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Fair
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 2012
Acquisition notes: This object is part of a large collection of items donated by Leila Ingrams in 2012 (2012,6030.1ff). Some were collected by her parents, Doreen and Harold Ingrams, between the 1920s-40s and others by Leila herself from the 1980s-2005 on the island of Zanzibar and in Hadramawt, Yemen.
Department: Middle East
Registration number: 2012,6030.5.a-b

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