Brass identity pass holder, "kipande"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Mar 2005
label: Collection Date
content: 1967
name: label: Collector
content: John S. Roberts
label: Donor Name
content: John S. Roberts
notes: label: Notes
content: Flat brass case with detachable lid and attached brass neck chain. Case is stamped with the letters "N.A.D." (probably "Native Affairs Department"). According to the donor, "these were issued to adult African men to hold identity papers and were worn around the neck, since at the time, pockets were rare in native garb". According to Mary Jo Arnoldi, NMNH Curator of African Ethnology, "Indigenous Kenyans were required to carry passes with their work records with them in order to travel around the country."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Nairobi, Kenya, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Colonial Kenya
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2034999
label: USNM Number
content: E431899-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Identity Case
physicalDescription: label: Length - Case, Assembled
content: ca. 7.8 cm
label: Width - Case, Assembled
content: ca. 4.8 cm
label: Height - Case, Assembled
content: ca. 1 cm
label: Length - Chain
content: 8.5 cm