Twisted Bracelet

African

  • Titles Twisted Bracelet (Descriptive)
  • Medium iron
  • Dimensions 5/8 x 4 in. (1.6 x 10.2 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Mortimer B. and Sue Fuller, 2006.86
  • Work Type bracelet
  • Classification Jewelry

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Mask (ntomo), Bamana people, Mali, African, wood, horn, pitch, seed, cowrie shell
Figure holds two medicine bottles
Round, brownish vessel with four knob handles has large spout opening at top, and numerous spout openings around shoulder; appliqued snake figure winds around openings, and red pigment is applied to spouts and snake.
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.