Double Waist String of Beads

Object Name: 
Double Waist String of Beads

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Object Name: 
Double Waist String of Beads
Place Made: 
West Africa
Accession Number: 
73.3.356
Dimensions: 
Overall W: 1 cm, D: 1 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1900-1973
Primary Description: 
Grayish-white, reddish-brown glass; Small African made copies of Rosetta; grayish-white beads with red and black longitudinal stripes; reddish brown beads with white longitudinal stripes, and black beads with grayish-white longitudinal stripes.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Lamb, Alastair, Former Collection
1973
Category: 
Beads
Color: 
Grayish-white, reddish-brown

Publications (1)

Krobo Powder-Glass Beads (1976-04) illustrated, pp. 36-37, center right, fig. 18; BIB# AI14479