Iron anklet
Item
Title
Iron anklet
Creator
Creator Unrecorded
Subject
Leg Ornament
Ornament
Description
7 deep iron wires, clasped together at each end with a shoe of iron with serated 'V' at the edge and out at the junction. There is fine wire wound round a central core. Accoring to original cataloguing information, this would have been worn as an anklet and is known as a 'oshivela oshiquata'. [FHM15/08/2019]
Publisher
Making African Connections
Date
c.1930
Type
PhysicalObject
Format
Iron; Metal
Bent
D = 70mm, C = 220mm [FHM15/08/2019]
Identifier
ETH.ANG3.179
A37/179
Source
Space/Place
Angola
Africa
Cultural Group: Okwanyama
Rights
© The Powell-Cotton Trust