armlets

Stone armlet.

Margaret Sheridan may have acquired this armlet (10.9.65/3) in Brazzaville, which could have been brought there, together with the two other armlets (10.9.65/1 and 10.9.65/2), by Hausa peddlers (as suggested on the card entries for 10.9.65/2 and 10.9.65/3). It is also possible that she acquired it during her stays in Algeria, or her trips across the Sahara. For example, on at least one occasion she visited Gao on route to Benin as described in one of her autobiographies, 'Devils in waiting' (Motley, 1960).

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
10.9.65/3
PLACE
COLLECTION
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
stone
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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