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Earrings

MOA: University of British Columbia

Aj147 a-b

Pair of plain, round, tin metal earrings with metal hoops attached at tops and covered with material. Part a has leather covering the hoop, and part b has brown-yellow rubber covering the hoop. The small groove in each earring is filled with dirt in some areas.

  • Cultural Context

    jewellery; decoration

  • History Of Use

    Forms of dress and jewellery, such as earrings, help determine social standing. For example, elders wear beautiful platted kilts, and hair dress indicates which class or age group a person may belongs to.

  • Type of Item earring
  • Culture Karamojong
  • Material tin metal, leather skin, rubber
  • Manufacturing Technique shaped, bent, cut
  • Measurements height 3.7 cm, width 2.1 cm, depth 2.0 cm (part a) height 3.0 cm, width 2.1 cm, depth 1.5 cm (part b)
  • Previous Owner Eleanore C. Treutle Stephens
  • Received from Eleanore C. Treutle Stephens
  • Made in Uganda
  • Creation Date before 1952
  • Collection Date during 1952
  • Ownership Date before December 1, 1986
  • Acquisition Date on December 1, 1986
  • Item Classes metalwork
  • Condition fair
  • Accession Number 1156/0022 a-b

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