pendant, leather, triangular, beaded; red cloth-backed leather with seed beaded depiction of two abstract human faces in low relief; each head within right triangle frame of white seed beads, with red background; pendant suspended loop of green and natural color leather necklace; W 15.5 cm x L ca 42.0 cm
Donor:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection place:
Nigeria
Verbatim coll. place:
West Africa, Nigeria, Yoruba; Made by Ekiti craftsman
Culture or time period:
Yoruba
Collector:
Berta Bascom and William Russell Bascom
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pendants (jewelry)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
December 15, 1993
Context of use:
worn by diviner; cf pl 21a, Bascom
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
length 42 centimeters and width 15.5 centimeters
Comment:
Notation on card: Jan. ‘89: 4 insect holes - check to see if spreads. PAHMA Storage Loc: W-15-5 Has plexi mount