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Start Over Materials Cowrie shell Accession number Acc.1119
Hearst Museum object titled Garment, accession number 5-1423, described as Garment (chest or waist ornament); multicolored beads strung in row and diamond designs with cowrie shells in between rows and on strings of black and white beads along one edge; other long edge has leather fringe; broken in one place. Provenience: Sudan, Nubian Hills attr. (fide Wm. Fagg). Materials, techniques: leather; glass trade beads; cowries.

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