What: A string of coloured beads

Where: Unknown

Description

One of 21 artefacts from the Abyssinian expedition put on show at the National Exhibition of Works of Art in Leeds in 1868

According to the exhibition’s catalogue, it was lent by J. Hannam, 3rd Dragoons, from Leeds. There are no details on what happened to it after the show closed in October that year.

There is no mention of a J. Hannam on the official list of people from the 3rd Dragoons who got the Abyssinian Campaign medal – see below. But there is a Private George Hannan. The Leeds version could be the result of a mishearing.

Sources

National Exhibition of Works of Art, at Leeds, 1868 : official catalogue