2000/084/740

Wright noted that this silver necklace was "cleaned with tamarind juice" by its previous, unknown owner. The Internet is full of websites suggesting using tamarind pulp to clean silver without using commercial chemicals

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Summary

: 2000/084/740

: British Empire & Commonwealth

: Personal ornament

: Silver necklace, lunate with sheet silver over a wooden form. The front decorated with filigree work of coils and loops, 7 studs, and 20 loops along bottom edge for double bells. Six large loops along top edge, holding a double cord. Back plain save for wire divisions between studs on the front. Collector's label: Somali / Yemen. Pectoral Lunate with bells - silver. Used by dancing women at feasts. purchased Mogadishu Somalia 1942. Collector's note: Somalia used by dancing women at feasts. Made of silver and cleaned with tamarind juice.

2000/084/740

Armine Wright collection

Current Location

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: British Empire & Commonwealth Museum Collection

: Wright

: Mogadishu, Somalia, East Africa, Africa

: Mogadishu, Somalia, East Africa, Africa

: Mogadishu, Somalia, East Africa, Africa

: 1942

: Transferred from the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, 2012

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