Gold-Leaf Bracelet
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 May 2002
label: Collection Date
content: 1980's
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. William Mithoefer
label: Donor Name
content: Mr. William Mithoefer
notes: label: Notes
content: ACCORDING TO DR. CHRISTINE KREAMER, AFRICAN ETHNOLOGIST, ANTHROPOLOGY DEPT, NMNH, THE DESIGN ON THIS CHIEF'S BRACELET SYMBOLIZES TERRIBLE DISEASES. IT DEMONSTRATES THE POWER OF THE CHIEF AND CHIEFDOM TO WITHSTAND ADVERSITY. ACCESSION MEMO NOTES THAT THIS ITEM WAS MADE BETWEEN 1970-1980, SHOWED NO SIGN OF USE AND WAS PROBABLY NEW WHEN ACQUIRED.
label: Notes
content: From African Voices exhibit: "By virtue of his power, the Akan king has nothing to fear from the terrible diseases represented by the bulging nobs on his gold bracelet."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Oct 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Known, Southern Ghana, Ghana, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Akan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 420708
label: USNM Number
content: E428659-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bracelet