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Bracelet with row of raised knobs.
Bracelet
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Bracelet

Maker Dinka Artist or
Maker Nuer Artist
Date20th century
Place of originSudan, Africa
MediumBrass
Dimensions5 1/8 x 3 3/8 in. (13 x 8.5 cm)
ClassificationsClothing and accessories
Credit LineGift of Katheryne Loughran and John Loughran, President of Foundation for Cross Cultural Understanding
Object number2005.28.23
Collections
Visual DescriptionBracelet with row of raised knobs.
A circular metal bracelet featuring four evenly spaced, raised nodes with small carved details. A curved segment of the band between two of the nodes is completely wrapped in tightly coiled reddish-brown wire. Details include two leopard head mask and two mudfish.
Bracelet
African, Nigeria, Benin
undated
Heavy cast brass bracelet with large central disk and smaller disks/bosses and hemicycle patterns.
Prestige Bracelet
Kru Artist
20th century
Cast brass bracelet with birds, stools and other Akan motifs; pin fastener.
Bracelet
Akan Artist
20th century
Multi-stranded, polychrome glass beadwork bracelets with fiber substrate, bordered of red, yellow and white beads with center sections in blocks of brass beads and blue and white striped beads.
Wedding Bracelets for Bride
Moroccan Artist
c. 1974
Multi-stranded, polychrome glass beadwork bracelets with fiber substrate. Border is alternating lines of white and red beads, with center sections in blocks of blue and white striped beads and brass beads.
Wedding Bracelets for Groom
Moroccan Artist
c. 1974
A heavy brass lost wax (cire perdue) cast open ring with fluted surface and globular knobs with spiral motifs. Visible file marks on some areas, and some pocking, with clayey encrustation.
Prestige object or Water Spirit ring (ntien)
Kru Artist
19th century or earlier
Knitted fiber cap with parallel lines of blue and white. Each side has an area of 7 rows of 1.5 inch knobs, (wood burls that support the fabric) each end covered with either green or red circles. Some repaired with felt. Discoloration and fading, but overall colors are vivid.
Man's Prestige Hat (ashetu)
Bamum Artist
20th century
Two or three headed serpent form, made of a plate with raised lines in shape of a stretched out N, with splayed ends; areas on the ends have twisted wire wrapping in two sections. Two knobs on the large inside curve, and a loop on the opposing side, similar loop on the top of the tail end. Color varies from silvery to bronze; surface has whitish patina and material appears to be a lost-wax casting using cuprous metal.
Double-headed Serpent Pendent
Lobi Artist
20th century
Bangle bracelet with tubular porte Koran.
Porte Qur’an Bracelet (Xirsi)
Somali Artist
19th-20th century
Cast metal bracelet with openwork squares pattern and inscribed spirals on center and end.
Bracelet
Igbo Artist
20th century
Bracelet carved with Portuguese soldiers and other devices, with surface and rich patina.
Bracelet
Edo Artist
undated
Ring bracelet with flared ends, hinged in center, with inscribed geometric motifs.
Bracelet
Tuareg Artist
20th century

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