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Description: | Made in Austria, Shell amulet, Seneganbia. A Wellcome Lovett Collection, 162429, Girl's Pubic Ornament, Senegambia, West Africa.
Pubic ornament in the form of a white glass triangle with a flattened tip. Decorated with an impressed geometric dot pattern highlighted in black.
label: [Dennison label] One side: COS AFRI [written in pale blue pencil by hand]; Other side: A [written in blue pencil]; Wellcome / Lovett Coll. [handwritten in black biro]; 126429 [black stamp]; girl's / pubic ornament, / Senegambia, / West Africa
label: [brown rectangle, black around hole] MADE IN AUSTRIA [stamp with crest-like logo] / Sh[ell] / amulet / Senegambia [handwritten in pencil]
caption: Frontal view of front of Horniman Museum object no nn10670
caption: General view of label of Horniman Museum object no nn10670 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | glass pubic ornaments pigment | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-111914 | Go to resource |
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