Beads
- Museum number:
- 5-16445a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210516445a@2cb
- Alternate number:
- B-2242 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4739
- Object count:
- 171
- Description:
- 2 strings of dried seed beads, 4 string of 75 seed beads and one joined string of 87 seed beads and 9 loose beads. sepia colored, rough surface; ca 1cm in diameter
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- Nigeria
- Verbatim coll. place:
- West Africa; Nigeria; Oyo; Yoruba
- Culture or time period:
- Yoruba
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Collection date:
- 1950-1951
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Accession date:
- June 23, 2004
- Context of use:
- Type of bead used to make Muslim prayer beads
- Department:
- Cat. 5 - Africa (except the Hearst Reisner Egyptian Collection)
- Dimensions:
- (a)— length 67 centimeters and (b)— length 76.5 centimeters
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