Woman's headdress - made of red wood and ostrich shell beads, glas beads, & vegetable fiber cord – Objects

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Object Number 51-60-50/8847

Display Title Woman's headdress - made of red wood and ostrich shell beads, glas beads, & vegetable fiber cord

Descriptions

Inventory Description Headdress, dangling stands ofleather with ostrich eggshell beads

Classification

Headdress

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / !Gham

Additional Geographic Terms Africa, Southwest

Materials Vegetable fiber string , Ostrich eggshell , Glass , Vegetable Seed pod ,

Dimensions Overall: 25 x 18 x 1 cm (9 13/16 x 7 1/16 x 3/8 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 51-60-50/8847

Provenance

Expedition Peabody Museum Expedition (Summer 1951)

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PrimaryMedia	Object Number	Title	Classification	Geography/Provenience
	2011.27.3	Beaded cache sex; waist band of ostrich eggshell beads with horizontal rows of white glass beads at center; dangling central panel with black and white glass bead chevron pattern; dangling strings of ostrich eggshell beads, black glass beads, or white glass beads are across the front of the skirt	Skirt	Botswana
	2011.27.2	Beaded cache sex; waist band of ostrich eggshell beads with horizontal rows of black glass beads at center; dangling central panel with black, white and red glass bead zigzag pattern; dangling strings of ostrich eggshell beads and black and white glass beads on either side	Skirt	Botswana
	58-43-50/10336	3 strand necklace of ostrich shell beads on vegetable fiber cord	Necklace	Namibia Botswana
	2012.2.3	Small bag of ostrich eggshell beads and hide; 18 pendent strings of beads; long beaded strap; 4 eggshell buttons at top opening	Bag Pouch	Botswana
	2011.27.1	Beaded cache sex; waist band of ostrich eggshell beads with central triangle pattern of metal beads; four dangling panels of different widths; each panel with black, white and dark blue beads in different geometric patterns	Skirt	Botswana
	51-60-50/8847.1	Two vegetable fiber cords(fragments) from Woman's headdress 8847	Headdress	!Gham
	56-57-50/9870	Long strand of ostrich eggshell beads	Necklace	Africa
Image Not Available for Beads on string, ostrich eggshell	47-13-50/6942	Beads on string, ostrich eggshell	Bead	Jebel Moya
	47-13-50/6998	Beads on string, ostrich egg shell	Bead	Jebel Moya
	47-13-50/6952	Beads on string, ostrich egg shell	Bead	Jebel Moya
	47-13-50/6946	Beads in string, ostrich egg shell	Bead	Jebel Moya
Image Not Available for Beads in string, ostrich egg shell	47-13-50/6982	Beads in string, ostrich egg shell	Bead	Jebel Moya

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