Beads
- Museum number:
- 5-16455a-g
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210516455a@2dg
- Alternate number:
- 5-16455 and B-2257a-g (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4739
- Object count:
- 7
- Description:
- seven strings of yellow transparent seed beads
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- Nigeria
- Verbatim coll. place:
- West Africa; Nigeria
- Culture or time period:
- Yoruba
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Materials:
- Glass (material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Accession date:
- June 23, 2004
- Department:
- Cat. 5 - Africa (except the Hearst Reisner Egyptian Collection)
- Dimensions:
- e— length 104 centimeters, f— length 70 centimeters, d— length 104 centimeters, g— length 68 centimeters, c— length 98 centimeters, a— length 104.8 centimeters, and b— length 103 centimeters
- Comment:
- NOTE: Object “f” is in a separate bag from “a, b, c, d, e, and g”. PAHMA Storage Loc: W 5-Bascom-2
- Images: