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Object Number
988-18-50/12511
Display Title
Waist beads
Descriptions
Object Description
Strand of black palmnut shell beads and brown, blue and pink glass beads, strung on fiber. Blue and pink beads are "snakebone."
Inventory Description
Necklace, black nut shell beads, red, blue and brown glass beads, on cotton.
Classification
- Necklace
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Ivory Coast
Materials
Glass, Nut, Fiber, Palm nutshell
Dimensions
Overall: 43 x 10 x 1.5 cm (16 15/16 x 3 15/16 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
988-18-50/12511
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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