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Earring
The earring consists of an open iron ring with an orange glass bead on the end.\In the 19th century, Oroch men and women both wore earrings.\The women often had several rings in one earlobe.\Metal was a scarce commodity in Oroch society.\ Valuable metal objects stayed in the family.\They were rarely resold or exchanged.\At most, they could be used as currency for bride price.\The Oroch were famili…
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-1202-114
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/688807
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- http://thesaurus.europeanafashion.eu/thesaurus/10547
- orange
- silver
- copper
- bead
- wax
- copper
- ambergris
- iron
- brass
Year
- 1850
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-31T16:16:09.268Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-10-20T13:51:01.552Z