Knobbed Brass Ring Money
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Feb 1867
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Ralph R. Gurley
label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Ralph R. Gurley
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "5165-6. IDENTIFICATION AS DAN MONEY, MADE IN THE FORM OF A BRACELET, PROVIDED BY MARGARET PLASS, 10/1/59. ACCORDING TO SCHWAB AND HARLEY (TRIBES OF THE LIBERIAN HINTERLAND, PEABODY MUSEUM PAPERS, VOL. 31, 1947), AMONG THE HALF-GREBO SUCH RINGS ARE USED AS "MEDICINE"--I.E., CHARMS KEPT TO WARD OFF THIEVES AND OTHERS WITH EVIL INTENT. THEY MAY BE WORN AS ANKLETS, OR KEPT IN THE HOUSE. WHEN THEY HAVE FINALLY LOST THEIR POWER, THEY MAY BE USED TO PURCHASE CATTLE, OR TO PAY FOR WIVES. THEY HAVE NOT BEEN MADE IN HISTORIC TIMES, BUT ARE FOUND IN THE BUSH, AND PRESUMABLY COME FROM A FORMER CULTURE.-P.363."
label: Notes
content: This ring was formerly misidentified and inventoried as E5165-1. The catalog number written on it in white has partly chipped off but the last number looks like a 6. Very faint ink in black looks like 5165. But catalog number 5165 is supposed to be only one object, and it is already accounted for. 5166 is otherwise missing, so it is assumed that 5166 is the correct number.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Liberia, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Dan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 67A00010
label: USNM Number
content: E5166-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Money