What: A hide bracelet
Where: The National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 4HT
The database entry describes a “bracelet, 1868 (c); associated with Sir Charles Fraser; hide wrist ornament, circular piece, bearing strips of the original black hair, with white on this strip of hide, threaded through a strap of raw hide with holes at the end; associated with Abyssinia (1868)”.
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1965-04-46
What: Seed necklace with Venetian beads taken by the British Museum’s expert on the expedition, Richard Rivington Holmes
Where: The British Museum, Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3DG
Provenance: Maqdala referenced at length in the museum’s acquisition notes.
The catalogue entry reads: “Necklace of brown seeds, eight large Venetian polychrome beads, two blue faceted beads, one amber bead, a carved mother of pearl bead and a small moulded black bead strung onto blue cotton cord.”
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Museum number: Af1868,1001.30
Date: 19thC
Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Richard Rivington Holmes
Acquisition date: 1/10/1868
What: A blue bead necklace with bell taken by the British Museum’s expert on the expedition, Richard Rivington Holmes
Where: The British Museum, Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3DG
Provenance: Maqdala referenced at length in the museum’s acquisition notes.
The catalogue entry reads: “Necklace made of faceted, mid blue, glass beads threaded onto a leather thong. Attached to the thong with elaborate leather knotwork is a cast, brass bell. At the top of the necklace, stitched to the thong with paler leather, is coil of leather.
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Museum number: Af1868,1001.29
Date: 19thC
Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Richard Rivington Holmes
Acquisition date: 1868
What: A ring taken off a dead Ethiopian soldier’s finger after the Battle of Aroge, April 10 1868
Where: King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum, Market Square, Lancaster, LA1 1HT
The museum entry reads: Ring taken from a dead Abyssinian soldier by Lieutenant Borrett.
Accession Number: KO0467/04
What: Iron bracelet with with groups of ‘eyes’ suspended from terminals
Where: The National Museums of Scotland
Sources:
The museums’ online catalogue entry has no pictures
National Museums of Scotland spreadsheet
Accession number: 1893.211
Description: Iron penannular bracelet with groups of ‘eyes’ suspended from terminals, and surface hatched with lines: Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, obtained at Magdala, 1868
Acquisition source: Mackenzie, William Sir K. C.B., C.S.I., 1811 – 1893
What: Bronze patterned armlet
Where: The National Museums of Scotland
Sources:
The museums’ online catalogue entry has no picture
National Museums of Scotland spreadsheet
Accession number: A.1893.212
Description: Bronze annular armlet ornamented with a raised plaited pattern, ribs and pellets: Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, obtained at Magdala, 1868
Acquisition source: Mackenzie, William Sir K. C.B., C.S.I., 1811 – 1893