Headdress

Headdresses contain multiple items from wreaths and diadems to hair combs and rings. Most of these are made of precious metals and/or beads of semi-precious stone. Usually, the more elaborate the headdresses are, the higher the status of the person.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
53	(none)	1923,1110.170	(none)	Gold mouth piece. Formed of thin gold plate cut to shape as below: [references drawing] The ends of the band pierced for stringing. [drawing]
2793	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold strip. Narrow strip of thin metal rolled up.
6890	(none)	(none)	B16423	Miniature bowl. Copper. Smashed. E. [drawing 1:1]
7694A	(none)	(none)	B17703	[A-B] 2 gold foil diadems. Perforated at each end. [drawing 1:1]
7948	(none)	(none)	B16769	Ring. Silver. 3 coils. [drawing] not to scale.
7951	(none)	1928,1009.174	(none)	Gold diadem. An oval strip of gold leaf with rounded ends: at each end a small hole; along the edge stamped dots. To this was attached a strip of similar thin gold, now in pieces, originally with a hole at each end for attachment to the oval front piece, but one end is missing.
8003	(none)	1928,1009.175	(none)	Gold diadem. Made of fairly heavy strip gold, plain, but with a line of minute punctures along each edge.
8039A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Pair of silver hair rings(?) or earrings. Usual lunate type. [drawing]
8150	(none)	(none)	(none)	Hair ring? or earring? Silver. [drawing] not to scale.
8173	(none)	(none)	B16686	Gold diadem. Thin gold: long strip with rounded ends. Thin gold with sewing-holes at each end and in the middle : along the edge very small dots in relief. The whole field is occupied by a scene rendered by impressed outlines, worked from the front onto a mould with incised design. Scene of animals and men. (see separate description).
8203	(none)	(none)	B17037	Silver ear-ring. Circle made of- 2 1/2 spiral coils of silver wire. & fragments of a second similar.
8212	(none)	(none)	B16790	Flower head ornament in silver, lapis and gold. The whole flower is silver, a flat truncated plate of thin metal on a fairly solid stem: on the end of each of the five petals is a ball of lapis capped with gold. Two lapis beads are corroded on to the end of the stem and may belong there (see U.8210). There was certainly a second similar flower on the other side of the head (this one rose from the right ear) but it was all broken up.
8214	(none)	(none)	B16704	Silver suspenders. A plain ring of silver wire from which hangs a spacer for 3 strings of beads: they appeared to hang from the head this way up, but two were found corroded together in opposite directions. [drawing 1:1]
8291	(none)	1928,1009.196	(none)	Hair ring or earring. Silver. 1 1/2 coils of thick silver.
8524A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Silver diadem Broken It appears to be formed of 2 separate parts: (A) A strip of thin silver plate (apparently plain) 0022 wide and about 018 long tapering to curved ends wherein are attachment holes: and (B) A strip of thin silver 005 wide twisted with a spiral coil so as to act as a spring: this appeared to be attached to (A) and to go round the back of the head.
8612	(none)	(none)	B16775	Gold ribbon. A mass of very thin gold ribbon, wide: originally a single length, now broken into a number of pieces. See field notes.
8617	(none)	(none)	B16776	Silver hair ornament(?) [drawing]
8693	(none)	(none)	B16798	Diadem. Composed of two pieces of gold (imitation chain) and 3 beads, large lentoids, 2 of lapis, 1 of gold. See field notes. The gold 'chains' are made of 4 strings of twisted 2-ply gold wire soldered together: one has come unsoldered at the end. The beads must have come in the middle of the forehead and a string must have connected the gold pieces behind the head.
8752	(none)	(none)	(none)	1 gold foil diadem. Broken in 3 pieces. Each end perforated for attachment to forehead.
8790	(none)	(none)	(none)	Diadem. Gold foil. Poor condition. Broken in two pieces. Portion missing. Each end perforated. Badly bent. Roughly lentoid shape. Found in position on forehead. [drawing]
8913	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold diadem. Made of sheet gold, an oval 0185 x 0065, with a star rosette in the center made with impressed lines: at each end of the hole through which pass the gold wires for attachment behind the head.
8930	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold ring spacer. [drawing 1:1]
8959	(none)	1928,1009.176	(none)	Gold diadem. A plain ribbon of thin gold leaf with holes at the ends for strings. Found on the skull.
9101	(none)	1928,1009.308	(none)	Copper blade Oval and apparently sharpened all around [drawing]
9167	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold diadem Plain narrow gold ribbon with hole at each end