Four-sided cast brass bell, aper from lip to shoulder. With separate heavy clapper attached via perforated hole in upper of bell. Cast handle with three ribs. Back side undecorated, other three with a overlapping scallop pattern, some filled with dots. On the front side is a stylised relief design of a female face.
39 Ethnographic specimens from Nigeria (see PDF 'R4689_Acc Register List') for all objects.
Accession register images; dmas_rgregb_1948_d04.tif and dmas_rgregb_1948_d11.tif and dmas_rgregb_1948_d12.tif.
Accession register (dmas_rgregb_1948_d11.tif) Brass bell (modern) worn by expectant mother hanging on back, to ward away evil spirit that might harm child. A clapper bell, square in cross-section, with conventional face, in front, in relief. Height 5 5/8? inches. Benin, S.Nigeria
Charles Grey additional info: birth 26/06/1880, death 12/12/1957. 4th Baronet of Fallodon. Son of Harry George Grey and Charlotte Cockburn Grey. Left no heir so this brother Sir Harry Martin Grey, became 5th Baronet, of Fallodon. Medic in West Africa.