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This heavy brass torque from Tanzania is thought to have been excavated
from a Pare grave in the mid-twentieth century, and to have been
made some time before 1892. It probably belonged to a woman. Amongst
the Pare in the precolonial period, torques like these were made
by members of the metalworking clan. They were usually purchased
by a girl’s parents and given to her to mark her adulthood
and the fact that she was ready to marry.
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database record 1995.27.2
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