anklet
- Museum number
- 2012,6030.5.a-b
- Description
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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)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 8 centimetres (average)
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Height: 3 centimetres (average)
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Weight: 73 grammes (a)
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Weight: 72 grammes (b)
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair
- 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
