Collection place: Central Africa / Culture or time period: Mafa tribe / Loans: S1983-1984 #4: City of Palo Alto (August 22, 1983–January 11, 1984) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Charm, accession number 5-4325, described as Charm (Durum Godobo [Tambak] Madzaf) of 4 antelope or goat horns of curved iron joined together by leather thong.

Hearst Museum object titled Pubic ornament, accession number 5-4236a-c, described as A) Female pubic ornament (madzoad); iron strips bound together in roughly triangular shape with twined bast fiber cordage at apex and bent around wire loop at base; 7 blue glass trade beads on wire loop; length: 15 cm. Made by Mafa smiths; always worn by married women; hung from skwi deba (B) concave side outwards and often with glass beads and other ornaments. B) Hip band (skwi deba); cordage stained with red ochre, and oil from fruit of Khaya senegalensis is wrapped around leather cord; length: ca. 48 cm. Made and worn at all times by women and married women; in disuse by 1964. Skwi deba = "something on the back". C) Leather tie thong with 2 iron strips twisted spirally over it.