Earrings
The earrings consist of an open iron ring with a green and an orange glass bead on the end.ⅫThis is followed by a wire with small beads in orange, turquoise and green.ⅫAt the end is a flat disc of white and green glass.\In the 19th century, Oroch men and women both wore earrings.Women often had several rings in one earlobe.Metal was a scarce commodity in Oroch society.Valuable metal objects stayed…
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Type of item
- Object Type: ear pendant
- ear pendant
- Ear pendant
Date
- 1850/1898
Type of item
- Object Type: ear pendant
- ear pendant
- Ear pendant
Date
- 1850/1898
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1850
- 1850/1898
Provenance
- 1898-12-01
- Schenking
Identifier
- RV-1202-112
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/688805
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- …
- green
- silver
- white
- copper
- orange
- wax
- ambergris
- copper
- brass
- iron
Year
- 1850
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-11T07:13:13.286Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-10-15T07:33:21.569Z