Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
Showing items held at 13 different institutions.
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Fringed camel bag with deep side pockets. Hemp-like fibres in shades of orange, red, brown, green and blue are woven into thick stripes and triangles outlined in white. Along the sides and tops of the pockets is a border made of orange strands, looped around multicoloured rag filler. Bundles of twined strands hang from the top, middle and bottom of pockets.
Large, heavy shawl with needle work paisley pattern. The craftsmanship of the red, blue, green, black, yellow and ivory design is less fine in the wide border. In the centre is a circular area of plain black fabric onto which is emboridered the numbers 22 CO 37 in ivory coloured thread. Other numbers (23222 and 949) are embroidered near two different corners.
Fertility figure (akuaba) with a flat, disc-shaped head. High oval forehead, curved upraised brows, small horizontal oval eyes with a horizontal slit along the middle, a long vertical nose, and a small mouth at the bottom of the face. The arms are truncated off with small pointed breasts below. The lower half of the body is somewhat cylindrical with a flat back and widens slightly to an oval base at the bottom.
Unworked gourd with bumpy surface has one globular end and the other end long and narrow like a handle. Dried seeds inside the gourd rattle when shaken.
Part of a necklace ? or headdress ? composed of pieces of metal welded into a tiara-like form. Two rods of copper and one of brass are curve upwards from the centre to several joined cylindrical brass beads at the sides. Two brass buttons and three round brass beads are soldered to the rods at the centre.
Female stuffed doll in a bead decorated black coat and red skirt stands on rectangular wood feet. The head is a stuffed and painted piece of canvas with a painted mop-like trim sewn on around the top. A piece of cow hide with hair is wrapped around her shoulders, as are strands of black and white beads and seeds. In her hand, she holds a white hair brush with bead worked base. The legs appear to be wood are covered with a black fabric.
Dance mask worn with dance costume (2792/2 a-b). The carved wood male face has life-like features that include glass brown eyes, long upper eyelashes of blonde hair, and painted flesh tone skin, gold teeth, curly gold hair and sideburns, mustache, eyebrows and lower eyelashes. There is a slit opening at the mouth and several holes have been drilled through the surface; the two nostrils, two at the bridge of the nose, one at the top of each ear and one at the top of the head.
Beaded necklace with one square panel hanging on a long double string of green, yellow and black beads linked together at regular intervals with white bead circles. The panel is filled with a multicoloured house motif within a white ground and has a bottom trim of a double string of blue beads, below which hangs a band of white crochet-like beadwork.
Beaded necklace (or head band ?) consisting of four square sections of beadwork strung together with large brown seeds and beads of different sizes and colours. Diamond, chevron and linear motifs in red, green, orange, blue and black decorate each of the white sections with crochet-like upper and lower borders. The one larger section has two brass bells hanging from the bottom.
Beaded anklet with crochet-like fringe. Strings of white, red, navy blue, light blue, pink, yellow and green beads are tightly wound around a bundle of brown fibre so that the beads create a geometric pattern at the front and leave the binding and fibres visible at the back. The anklet is flexible and bends to fasten at the ends with a brown plastic button through a blue bead loop.