Ring

Museum number:

5-3438

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ark:/21549/hm21050003438

Alternate number:

B-2070 (previous number (Bascom’s number))

Accession number:

Acc.1807

Object count:

1

Description:

brass ring; twisted; used for “medicine”, 7/8” diameter

Donor:

William Russell Bascom

Collection place:

Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

Verbatim coll. place:

Africa; Nigeria; Ibadan; Yoruba

Culture or time period:

Yoruba

Collector:

William Russell Bascom

Collection date:

1951

Materials:

Brass (alloy)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Rings (finger jewelry)

Function:

5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies

Accession date:

1963

Department:

Africa (except Ancient Egypt)

Dimensions:

diameter 2.223 centimeters

Comment:

Object bearing this catalogue number has a Bascom inventory number of 2034, vice the number in this record. PAHMA Storage Loc: 20A, W-13-5

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