Object Number | 81-19-8 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Berber |
Provenience | Morocco | Atlas Mountains |
Date Made | 1920-1929 |
Section | African |
Materials | Silver | Bronze | Stone |
Description | Silver and bronze tabernacle ring. The band of the ring is bronze with silver(?) wire surface decoration in loops. The tabernacle is a two-tiered structure supported by silver columns in each of the four corners. The open spaces between these columns have looped openwork silver in them. The structure is topped by a silver cone with thin sheets of red, yellow and black inlay. The cone has four silver balls around its base. |
Height | 6.5 cm |
Outside Diameter | 3.3 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Marguerite McBey, 1981 |
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