Head ring
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cowry shell, Glass, Gut
Measurements
160 mm (Length)260 mm (W)
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303977
Summary
A headdress made up of a band of white, blue and pink glass beads worked into a diamond pattern; strings of red and white beads hanging from the band, each one terminating in a cowry shell. South African (?). Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.