Girdle
37-22-151
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
Object Number | 37-22-151 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Sherbro |
Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
Section | African |
Materials | Glass | Fiber |
Description | Band of netted beadwork of glass beads. The ground is green; along the middle is a stripe composed of lozenges of various colours; red and yellow; red, yellow, and white; red, yellow, and blue. To the ends are attached short strings of white, red, yellow, or blue glsas beads caught together at their distal ends. See 37-22-69 (girl's costume) |
Length | 73 cm |
Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
Other Number | 69 - Collector Number |
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