slave chain

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slave chain

Collected By: Townsend

Region: south-west Nigeria, West Africa

Description: Set of 45 flattened iron loops, with two round neck loops. The museum’s Accessions Register records that they were taken from “Two captives freed by Rev Townsend”, probably in the 1860s. Given by Townsend in April 1869.

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