Object Details
- Undetermined artist
- Label Text
- This bracelet collected in Timbuktu illustrates the precept that If you can not afford gold, then you make do with gold colored plant fiber.
- Description
- Bracelet, C-shaped with oval decorative area at center of band with seven circles on a wrapped band.
- Provenance
- Roy and Brigitta Mitchell, Washington, D.C., -- to 2010
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- Credit Line
- Gift of the Roy and Brigitta Mitchell Collection
- Mid-20th century
- Object number
- 2010-10-401
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Jewelry
- Medium
- Plant fiber, wood
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 3.5 x 6.9 x 6.3 cm (1 3/8 x 2 11/16 x 2 1/2 in.)
- Geography
- Timbuktu, Mali
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- National Museum of African Art Collection
- National Museum of African Art
- Topic
- Adornment
- Female use
- male
- Record ID
- nmafa_2010-10-401
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ys7d95a9562-be03-4472-b7b2-60315d94bce3
