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Hearst Museum object titled Bracelet, accession number 5-4206a-t, described as Straw bracelets (gruogruo); plaited circular band; 5.5-9.5 cm diam. Made and worn on upper arms by men and women on market days, festivals, etc. In disuse after 1964.
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.
Hearst Museum object titled Rattles, accession number 5-4335a,b, described as Conical rattles (Gofshgotshe'e) of twined cordage; stitched to base of round section of calabash; pair connected by cord; height each circa 12.5 cm. Made and used by women and girls for dances at festivals, hudok, funerals, etc. to give the dancers their cadence; held in hands or fastened below knee. Collected 8/2/1964.
Hearst Museum object titled Rattles, accession number 5-4336a,b, described as Conical rattles (Gofshgotshe'e) of twined cordage; stitched to base of round section of calabash; disconnected pair; height each circa 8.5 cm. Made and used by women and girls for dances at festivals, hudok, funerals, etc. to give the dancers their cadence; held in hands or fastened below knee. Collected 8/2/1964.
Hearst Museum object titled Rattles, accession number 5-4334a,b, described as Conical rattles (Gofshgotshe'e) of twined cordage; stitched to base of round section of calabash; disconnected pair; height each circa 18 cm. Made and used by women and girls for dances at festivals, hudok, funerals, etc. to give the dancers their cadence; held in hands or fastened below knee. Collected 8/2/1964.

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