Beads

Museum number:

5-16455a-g

Permalink:

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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

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