Object Details
- Label Text
- Bracelets were essential to a woman’s collection, and a simple version was often a Wolof woman’s first acquisition. Like necklaces and earrings, bracelets come in a wide variety of inventive styles, from the braided and twisted designs, which required the female client’s presence to designate the tightness of the twist, to delicate, European-inspired flowers, to Islamic-inspired half-moon bracelets.
- Description
- Gold C-form bracelet composed of eight half domes on a solid band and capped by spherical ends. The half domes and spherical ends are covered in overall applied twisted circles, with the half domes also crested by a central globule.
- Provenance
- Marian Johnson, purchased in Dakar, Senegal, 1963-late 20th century to 2012
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. Marian Ashby Johnson
- Mid-20th century
- Object number
- 2012-18-173
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Jewelry
- Medium
- Gold
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 7.3 x 8.5 x 1.7 cm (2 7/8 x 3 3/8 x 11/16 in.)
- Geography
- Senegal
- See more items in
- National Museum of African Art Collection
- Object Name
- “Lam u Tambourin” (Tambourine Bracelet)
- National Museum of African Art
- Topic
- Adornment
- Female use
- male
- Record ID
- nmafa_2012-18-173
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ys72ea1b374-f3cf-40f0-82a2-068e400d2572
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