Catalogue card notes: "[One of] Three metal bracelets. / A. Annular, copper, with spiral twist of flat silver wire sunk into a spiral groove cut to receive it."
Miss Francis Collins married in 1896, a year before the Benin Expedition and there is no record of her being married before. The majority of the objects, initially accessioned as coming from Benin City, have been later identified as Asante.
It is likely, therefore, that Captain Jackson served in one of the Expeditionry Forces of the Anglo-Ashanti wars.
Given the uncertainty of the place of collection, Ghana and Benin City have been added to the place field with queries, as have Edo and Asante in the cultural group field
Catalogue card reads, in black ink: "39.180 A/C | Benin / Three metal bracelets:- / A. Annular, copper, with spiral twist of flat silver wire sunk into a spiral groove cut to receive it. / B. Penannular, cast in imitation of spirally twisted wire, knob terminal. / C. Penannular, heavily cast with broad, shallow spiral twist, flattened terminals decorated with incised concentric rings. / d.d W.W. Collins"
Red circular sticker in bottom right corner of card.
Donated by William Wiehé Collins, an English landscape painter.
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Noted by the donor William Collins, as belonging to the wife of his late brother, Mr Francis Collins, which had been collected by her first husband, who had served in the Benin Expedition