| Object Number |
21160 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Culture |
Edo (Africa) |
| Provenience |
Nigeria | Benin Kingdom |
| Date Made |
19th century CE |
| Section |
African |
| Materials |
Brass |
| Description |
Brass hairpin topped with a hollow cylindrical tube with serrated edge and six incised bands decorate the tube. Inlay is missing. |
| Length |
8.5 cm |
| Width |
1.2 cm |
| Credit Line |
Gift of Henry Ling Roth, 1899 |
Current & Past Exhibitions
This object has never been on display.
Bibliography
| Brown, Martha M. Iyare! Splendor & Tension in Benin's Palace Theatre: An African Curriculum for Students. Hollister Kids for the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2009. See: p. 14 |
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| "Collections and Publications." Bulletin of the Free Museum of Science and Art II, No. 1. (1899): 39-50. See: p. 50 |
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| Roth, Henry L. Personal Ornaments from Benin. No. 1, 2. Free Museum of Science and Art, Jan 1899. Page/Fig./Plate: 8 See: p. 4, fig. 23 |
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