Beads

Museum number:

5-16466

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Alternate number:

B-2326 (previous number (Bascom’s number))

Accession number:

Acc.4739

Object count:

1

Description:

brown glass beads, strung on red cotton thread. thread knotted at one end and braided at the other (65) beads

Donor:

Berta Bascom

Collection place:

Nigeria

Verbatim coll. place:

West Africa, Nigeria

Collector:

Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom

Materials:

Glass (material)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Beads (pierced objects)

Function:

5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies

Accession date:

June 23, 2004

Department:

Africa (except Ancient Egypt)

Dimensions:

length 79 centimeters

Comment:

PAHMA Storage Loc: v 4-Bascom-4

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