Anklet
Worn in pairs by high class women just before marriage, to show that they did not need to work. They were removed after marriage. The fashion for these anklets was short-lived.
Acquired by colonial administrator HS Burrough between 1903 and 1926.
Acquired by colonial administrator HS Burrough between 1903 and 1926.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 42/1960/21
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Personal ornament
- Collection Area Region
- W
- Material
- copper alloy
- Common Name
- anklet
- Simple Name
- anklet
- Production County
- Akwa, Eastern Nigeria
- Production Country
- Nigeria
- Production Year High
- 1926
