DepartmentTextiles-Africa
Pair of Bracelets
NameBracelets
Artist
Artist not recorded
Place madeSudan, Africa
MediumSilver
Dimensionsa: 2 1/16 × 3 in. (5.3 × 7.6 cm)
b: 2 1/8 × 3 1/8 in. (5.4 × 8 cm)
Width: includes knobs
b: 2 1/8 × 3 1/8 in. (5.4 × 8 cm)
Width: includes knobs
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Florence Dibell Bartlett, A.1955.86.899ab
Object numberA.1955.86.899ab
Collections
ProvenancePurchased at Omdurman.
DescriptionFiligree work studded with pyramid knobs set in squares. Two identical bracelets, with rectangular divisions in lines of filigreed half-circular pieces, set closely together, and being heavily riged on outer surfaces. Division is a peaked, fluted unit, studded and circles with twisted wire.
1450 - 1550
ca. 1943, donor
Rasimin
