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Object Number 2020.3.45
Display Title Beaded leather adornment, damaged, dangling metal pieces detached
Descriptions
Inventory Description Adornment, leather strap, hanging blue, yellow orange glass beads, button with beads for clasp, hanging metal extensions, link chain with flat metal rectangular shapes. Multiple chains and metal pieces detatched
Classification
  • Adornment
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hadza
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Tanzania
Dimensions Overall: 23.5 × 1.2 × 0.4 cm (9 1/4 × 1/2 × 3/16 in.)
Quantity 27
Label on object 2020.3.45
Credit Line Gift of Frank Marlowe, Anthropologist, and the Hadza people of Tanzania
Provenance
Collector Frank W. Marlowe

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Skirt
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