Belt

Museum number:

5-855

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Accession number:

Acc.988

Object count:

1

Description:

cowrie shell money belt

Donor:

University of California African Expedition

Collection place:

Namibia

Culture or time period:

Kuanyama Ambo

Collector:

Edwin M. Loeb, Ella-Marie Loeb, and University of California African Expedition

Collection date:

Spring 1948

Materials:

Cowrie shell

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Belts (costume accessories)

Function:

7.0 Use not specified (Communication, Records, Currency, and Measures)

Accession date:

1949

Department:

Africa (except Ancient Egypt)

Comment:

Kuanyama say that they buy them this way. The belt is from Portuguese East Africa. The shells used for unmarried girls’ headdress.

Loans:

S1961-1962 #81: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (May 22, 1962–May 22, 1962), S1963-1964 #13: Cole Elementary School/Beverly D. Deffes (September 12, 1963–September 13, 1963), S1965-1966 #88: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966), S1970-1971 #143: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 11, 1971–June 16, 1971), S1971-1972 #147: Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (May 24, 1972–May 24, 1972), S1976-1977 #87: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 10, 1977–June 14, 1977), S1977-1978 #75: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 15, 1978–June 20, 1978), and S1978-1979 #71: Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 12, 1979–June 13, 1979)

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