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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