Anklering

Silver ring. Hollow, filled with a resinous mass; Covered on all sides with fine geometric designs and ornaments. _____ According to the 1897 inventory: worn on the ankle by Sultana Mnini Mtwana, captured during the destruction of Ndaburo. _____ Object from the looting following the punitive expedition against Ndaburo (Mataburu) in the Mahalala forest in German East Africa. Under the command of Tom von Prince and with the active participation of Captain Spring, German African auxiliary troops took the village on the night of March 10, 1893. Chief Mnini Mtwana, his father and wife, first taken prisoner, are then summarily executed by shooting. The ring may have been worn by the chief himself or by his wife. - Descriptive inventory by Nicolas Van Werveke of the Spring ethnographic collection. N.B.: this is a faithful transcription of Van Werveke's inventory, the terms used in 1898 have not been modified, even those whose use is considered critical today.