Leg ornament
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Hair, Leather
Measurements
240 mm (Length)230 mm (Length)120 mm (W)90 mm (W)
Place of origin
Zimbabwe
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303956
Summary
One of three Matabele leg ornaments made from animal hair (lion?) attached to leather and plaited gut thongs. Collected Matabeleland (Zimbabwe) 1896. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton in Matabeleland (Zimbabwe) in 1896