Beads
- Museum number:
- 5-16469a-d
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210516469a@2dd
- Alternate number:
- 5-16469 and B-2976a-d (previous number (Bascom’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.4739
- Description:
- four tubular segi beads; blue glass strung on pipe cleaner Conservation: one bead broken into 2 pieces
- Donor:
- Berta Bascom
- Collection place:
- Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria
- Verbatim coll. place:
- West Africa; Nigeria; Oyo; Yoruba
- Culture or time period:
- Yoruba
- Collector:
- Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
- Collection date:
- 1960
- Materials:
- Glass (material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Beads (pierced objects)
- Function:
- 8.0 Use not specified (Raw Materials)
- Accession date:
- June 23, 2004
- Context of use:
- decorative; from Alafin's daughter (one tested in Aladin lamp, per donor)
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- beads— length 3 centimeters
- Images:
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