Zande arm ornament
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Accession Number:
1934.8.142
Country:
Sudan
Region:
[Southern Sudan] Western Equatoria near Tambura
Cultural Group:
Zande
Date Made:
By 1933
Materials:
Iron Metal
Process:
Forged (Metal) , Hammered
Dimensions:
L = 61.2 mm, W = 52.6 mm, W band 5.5 mm, Th band 5.2 mm [RTS 24/3/2004].
Weight:
30.3 g
Local Name:
benga
Other Owners:
Collected by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton and his wife on 29th April 1933 during a shooting expedition. Found unentered on 24th March 2004 with its object tag bearing provenance details attached, and matched to a formerly missing item in the list of
Field Collector:
Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton & Hannah Powell-Cotton (nee Brayton)
PRM Source:
Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton
Acquired:
Donated 1934; found unentered 2004.
Collected Date:
29th April 1933
Description:
Penannular bracelet made from a iron bar with roughly square section, bent into an oval loop with open ends, 18 mm apart.
The upper, lower and inside edges are flat, but the outer face is slightly convex.
The ends have been cut flat, but are worn and slightly rounded.
The surface has been polished, and is currently a metallic grey (Pantone 422C).
There appear to be some dark black inclusions in the metal, particularly on its inner face.
The bracelet is complete and intact.
It measures 61.2 by 52.6 mm across its outer edges, and 52 mm across its inside edges, while the bar from which it has been formed has a width of 5.5 mm and a thickness of 5.2 mm.
The weight is 30.3 grams.
Collected by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton and his wife Hannah on the road to Tambura on 29th April 1933, during a shooting expedition. The Zande name for this type of object is said to be benga.
Rachael Sparks 25/9/2005.
Collected by Percy Horace Gordon Powell-Cotton and his wife Hannah on the road to Tambura on 29th April 1933, during a shooting expedition. The Zande name for this type of object is said to be benga.
Rachael Sparks 25/9/2005.
Primary Documentation:
Accession Book Entry
[p.
248] -
MAJOR P.
H.
G.
POWELL-COTTON
, Quex Park, Birchington, E.
Kent.
Specimens collected by himself & Mrs Cotton, during hunting trips, 1933, viz: [...] [p.
261] 1934.8.142 - Penannular iron bracelet with square section, native name
benga
.
ZANDE, road to TAMBURA, 29/4/1933 (1029).
Found unentered, accessioned 24/3/2004 [RTS].
Related Documents File - Typewritten List of "Curios Presented to Dr. Balfour by Major & Mrs. Powell-Cotton. Zande Tribe". This object appears as item 1029: “Iron bracelet, square, native name benga , 29/4/33 Road to Tambura, 5.35 N 27.30 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].
Pitt Rivers Museum label - Benga , armlet, ZANDE, nr. TAMBURA, E. SUDAN. 5.35 N 27.30 E. d.d. Major Powell-Cotton. 1934. [rev:] (1029) [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 12/10/2005]
Written on object - 1029 [in pencil; RTS 24/3/2004].
Related Documents File - Typewritten List of "Curios Presented to Dr. Balfour by Major & Mrs. Powell-Cotton. Zande Tribe". This object appears as item 1029: “Iron bracelet, square, native name benga , 29/4/33 Road to Tambura, 5.35 N 27.30 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].
Pitt Rivers Museum label - Benga , armlet, ZANDE, nr. TAMBURA, E. SUDAN. 5.35 N 27.30 E. d.d. Major Powell-Cotton. 1934. [rev:] (1029) [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 12/10/2005]
Written on object - 1029 [in pencil; RTS 24/3/2004].
