| Object Number |
21163 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Culture |
Edo (Africa) |
| Provenience |
Nigeria | Benin Kingdom |
| Date Made |
18th-19th century CE |
| Section |
African |
| Materials |
Brass | Coral |
| Description |
Finger ring in shape of bar with crosspiece near each end and cyldiner on top of junctions. Ring loop on back at center of bar. Bar and crosspieces hollow and inlaid with coral. Inlay missing in several areas. |
| Length |
11.6 cm |
| Credit Line |
Gift of Henry Ling Roth, 1899 |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| "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. 21 |
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| 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. 13 |
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| Curnow, Kathy. Iyare! Splendor and Tension In Benin's Palace Theatre. 2016. See: pp. 90-91 |
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| Curnow, Kathy. Guide to the Benin Collection at the Penn Museum. Philadelphia: Questor | UPMAA, 2024. Page/Fig./Plate: 132 See: p. 32, fig. 33 |
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