Edwin M. Loeb, Ella-Marie Loeb, and University of California African Expedition
Collection date:
Spring 1948
Materials:
Cowrie shell
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Belts (costume accessories)
Function:
7.0 Use not specified (Communication, Records, Currency, and Measures)
Accession date:
1949
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Comment:
Kuanyama say that they buy them this way. The belt is from Portuguese East Africa. The shells used for unmarried girls’ headdress.
Loans:
S1961-1962 #81: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (May 22, 1962–May 22, 1962), S1963-1964 #13: Cole Elementary School/Beverly D. Deffes (September 12, 1963–September 13, 1963), S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966), S1970-1971 #143: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 11, 1971–June 16, 1971), S1971-1972 #147: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (May 24, 1972–May 24, 1972), S1976-1977 #87: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 10, 1977–June 14, 1977), S1977-1978 #75: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 15, 1978–June 20, 1978), and S1978-1979 #71: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 12, 1979–June 13, 1979)