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Fetish collar covered with cowries
Fetish collar covered with cowries
Object Number 17-41-50/B1953
Display Title Fetish collar covered with cowries
Descriptions
Inventory Description Headband, cloth-covered vegetable fiber ring, shell, button, glass bead decorat
Classification
  • Headband
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Congo
Materials Cloth, Vegetable fiber, Thread, Mud, Cowrie, Pigment
Dimensions Overall: 24 x 23 x 4.5 cm (9 7/16 x 9 1/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 17-41-50/B1953

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