Bracelet

Dan people, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, African

  • Titles Bracelet (Descriptive)
  • Medium metal
  • Dimensions 1/2 x 4 x 3 3/4 in. (1.3 x 10.2 x 9.5 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Drs. Noble and Jean Endicott, 1991.1136.6
  • Work Type bracelet
  • Classification Jewelry

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Female Figure, Lobi people, Burkina Faso, African, wood, encrustation
Dark brownish-black vessel has round bottom and narrower neck with parallel raised bands; body has incised horizontal abstract design.
Headdress of burlap and animal hide, front beaded with red, blue, white, and green glass beads in lozenge and triangle patterns. Five cowrie shells and four wooden peg beads attached on top of surface of glass beads. Wooden pegs, joined in pairs, cover small lozenges of green glass beads. White, brown, black, and blue feathers cover top, sides and back of headdress in spherical shape (slightly flattened in back). Five short wooden dowels attached to back, arranged two, one, two.
Necklace (Sehadla), Pedi people, South Africa, African, glass bead; thread