Bari finger ring
Other views of this artifact:
Accession Number:
1934.8.54
Country:
Sudan
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Bahr el Jebel Mongalla
Cultural Group:
Bari
Date Made:
By 1933
Materials:
Iron Metal
Process:
Hammered , Bent
Dimensions:
Max Diam [external] = 21.8 mm Max Diam [internal] = 18 mm Max Ht = 11 mm Max Diam [rod] = 1.5 mm
Weight:
7.4 g
Other Owners:
Collected by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton and his wife on 12th February 1933 during a shooting expedition [RTS 4/5/2004].
Field Collector:
Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton & Hannah Powell-Cotton (nee Brayton)
PRM Source:
Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton
Acquired:
Donated 1934
Collected Date:
12th February 1933
Description:
Finger ring made from an iron rod, roughly round in section but hammered flat and pinched off at either end.
This has been wound into a continuous spiral with four coils; it is round in plan view.
The ring is complete and intact, and still a metallic grey on the most surfaces (Pantone 877C), although rust is developing on the inside face.
It has an external diameter of 21.8 mm, an internal diameter of 18 mm, a maximum height of 11 mm, while the rod from which it has been formed has a diameter of 1.5 mm and a weight of 7.4 grams.
Collected by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton and his wife Hannah at the town of Mongalla on 12th February 1933, during a shooting expedition. Powell-Cotton did not record its local name.
For a different style of finger ring, worn by the Bari, see 1934.8.53; this is known as kateman.
Rachael Sparks 24/9/2005.
Collected by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton and his wife Hannah at the town of Mongalla on 12th February 1933, during a shooting expedition. Powell-Cotton did not record its local name.
For a different style of finger ring, worn by the Bari, see 1934.8.53; this is known as kateman.
Rachael Sparks 24/9/2005.
Primary Documentation:
Accession Book Entry [p.
248] 1934 [insert] 8 [end insert] - MAJOR P.
H.
G.
POWELL-COTTON, Quex Park, Birchington, E.
Kent.
Specimens collected by himself & Mrs Cotton, during hunting trips, 1933, viz: [...] [p.
252] - From the BARI tribe, MONGALLA, PERIDI and NGANGALA.
[insert] 54 [end insert] - Spiral iron finger-ring, ib[idem] [MONGALLA] (295).
Additional Accession Book Entry - [in pencil, next to accession number] - no. given.
Card Catalogue Entry - There is no further information on the catalogue card [RTS 12/2/2004].
?Pre-PRM label - 295 D [reused brown card, tied to object, RTS 4/5/2004]
Written on box - (295) Finger-ring of coiled iron wire. BARI, MONGALLA, E. SUDAN. 5°19' N., 31°49' E. d.d. Major Powell-Cotton, 1934 1934.8.54 [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/5/2005]
Pitt Rivers Museum label - 1934.8.54 E. SUDAN BARI MONGALLA Finger-ring of [rev] coiled iron wire dd. Major Powell-Cotton 1934 [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/5/2005]
Related Documents File - Typewritten List of "Curios Presented to Dr. Balfour by Major & Mrs. Powell-Cotton. Barri Tribe". This object appears as item 295: "Finger ring, 4 coiled iron, 12/2/33 Mongalla, 5.19 N. 31.49 E”. Also contains details of a cine film 'some tribes of the Southern Sudan', taken by Powell-Cotton during this 1933 expedition, copies of which are now in the National Film and Television Archive and the Powell-Cotton Museum in Kent [RTS 14/3/2005].
Additional Accession Book Entry - [in pencil, next to accession number] - no. given.
Card Catalogue Entry - There is no further information on the catalogue card [RTS 12/2/2004].
?Pre-PRM label - 295 D [reused brown card, tied to object, RTS 4/5/2004]
Written on box - (295) Finger-ring of coiled iron wire. BARI, MONGALLA, E. SUDAN. 5°19' N., 31°49' E. d.d. Major Powell-Cotton, 1934 1934.8.54 [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/5/2005]
Pitt Rivers Museum label - 1934.8.54 E. SUDAN BARI MONGALLA Finger-ring of [rev] coiled iron wire dd. Major Powell-Cotton 1934 [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 27/5/2005]
Related Documents File - Typewritten List of "Curios Presented to Dr. Balfour by Major & Mrs. Powell-Cotton. Barri Tribe". This object appears as item 295: "Finger ring, 4 coiled iron, 12/2/33 Mongalla, 5.19 N. 31.49 E”. Also contains details of a cine film 'some tribes of the Southern Sudan', taken by Powell-Cotton during this 1933 expedition, copies of which are now in the National Film and Television Archive and the Powell-Cotton Museum in Kent [RTS 14/3/2005].
