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Object Number 988-18-50/12458
Display Title Waist beads
Descriptions
Object Description Strand of waist beads made of black palmnut shell beads and green glass beads, strung on fiber.
Inventory Description Necklace, green glass beads and black nut shell beads, discoidal, on fiber.
Classification
  • Necklace
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Ivory Coast
Dimensions Overall: 39 x 1.2 x 1.4 cm (15 3/8 x 1/2 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 988-18-50/12458
Provenance
Provenance Cisse (10/87-8/88)
Collector Christopher B. Steiner (10/87-8/88 - 12/6/88)
Donor Christopher B. Steiner (10/87-8/88 - 12/6/88)

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