idno
1939.175 B
Edo designations
English designations
Bow
Categories
Musical Instruments
Location
Downing St, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, United Kingdom
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Provenance
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Institution data
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
The data was transferred directly by the institution.
Last updated: 2022-07-18
Language: english
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idno object id | 1939.175 B |
local edo designation | |
Physical description/0 description | Catalogue card notes: "(a) Fiddle / (b) bow. (metal frame)." |
Physical description/1 description | Metal of bow cracked at widest part. Most of the hairs broken. [A.Nadin] |
Physical description/2 description | Stringed bow for fiddle made of metal and animal hairs. The metal bow is externally decorated with circular motifs. The hairs are tied to the metal via two perforation on each end, secured with cotton threads on one end and leather on the other end. The hairs have a knot tied on one end near the leather tie. |
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d_Description Name description | Metal bow with animal hair string for fiddle. |
height dimensions | |
length dimensions | 320 mm |
width dimensions | 100 mm |
weight weight | 0.1 kg |
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Labels - Markings/0 inscriptions | The accession number is marked in white on the internal surface of the bow. |
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period date made | 19th century |
maker producer | |
d_Place production place | Africa; West Africa; ?Ghana; ?Nigeria; [?Kingdom of Benin]; ?Edo State; ?Benin City; ?Oba's Palace |
Other owners prior source | |
source prior source | Collins, William Wiehé [donor]; Jackson (Captain) [collector] |
Collection or Excavation Year date collected | 1897 |
culture group ethnic attribution | ?Edo; ?Akan; ?Asante |
source date accession date | 1939 |
Amendments - updates/0 notes | Mrs Francis Collins married in 1896, a year before the Benin Expedition , and there is no record of her being married before. The majority of the objects, initially accessioned as coming from Benin City, have been later identified as Asante. It is likely, therefore, that Captain Jackson served in one of the Expedition ary Forces of the Anglo-Ashanti wars. |
Amendments - updates/1 notes | Given the uncertainty of the place of collection, Ghana and Benin City have been added to the place field with queries, as have Edo and Asante in the cultural group field |
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Reference Numbers bibliography | 1939.175 B |
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Related Documents/0 bibliography | Given by W. W Collins. See Letter 20/1/1939 in MAA archives |
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Acquisition Details/0 | Donated by William Wiehé Collins, an English landscape painter. |
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Field_collection/0 | Noted by the donor William Wiehé Collins, as belonging to the wife of his late brother, Mr Francis Collins, which had been collected by her first husband, who had served in the Benin Expedition . |
Field_collection/1 | Catalogue card reads, in black ink: "39.175 | Benin / (a) Fiddle / (b) bow (metal frame). / Taken in the West African Field Expedition to Benin by a Capt. Jackson [see Letter 20/1/39.] d.d. W.W. Collins." Added in second hand, black ink after IDNO: "Nigeria" Red circular sticker on bottom right of card, with "A" and B" written next to it. |
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