Beads
- Museum number:
- 5-16447
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050016447
- Alternate number:
- B-2245 (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4739
- Description:
- one string of cylindrical beads; alternating maroon and striped. strung on black thread.
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- Nigeria
- Verbatim coll. place:
- West Africa, Nigeria, Oyo
- Culture or time period:
- Yoruba
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Materials:
- Glass (material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Beads (pierced objects)
- Function:
- 8.0 Use not specified (Raw Materials)
- Accession date:
- June 23, 2004
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- length 68.5 centimeters
- Images:
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