Cape

Museum number:
5-13266
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050013266
Accession number:
Acc.3321
Description:
Cape., Tanzania, Masai. 5-13266, acc no. 3321. File code: 2.1 Donor: Dr. Harold B. Van Maren. Materials, techniques: Glass "seed" beads; glass ornaments; ocher-stained lather Context of use: Garment. Description: Cape; ocher-stained leather trimmed with varicolored "seed" beads in linear and curvilinear designs; several roundels of beads have disc-shaped glass bead centers; l. 1.19 M.
Donor:
Harold B. Van Maren and Mrs. Harold B. Van Maren
Collection place:
Tanzania
Verbatim coll. place:
Tanzania; Masai
Culture or time period:
Maasai people
Collector:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Capes (outerwear)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Cape, accession number 5-13266, described as Cape., Tanzania, Masai. 5-13266, acc no. 3321. File code: 2.1 Donor: Dr. Harold B. Van Maren. Materials, techniques: Glass "seed" beads; glass ornaments; ocher-stained lather Context of use: Garment. Description: Cape; ocher-stained leather trimmed with varicolored "seed" beads in linear and curvilinear designs; several roundels of beads have disc-shaped glass bead centers; l. 1.19 M.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Cape, accession number 5-13266, described as Cape., Tanzania, Masai. 5-13266, acc no. 3321. File code: 2.1 Donor: Dr. Harold B. Van Maren. Materials, techniques: Glass "seed" beads; glass ornaments; ocher-stained lather Context of use: Garment. Description: Cape; ocher-stained leather trimmed with varicolored "seed" beads in linear and curvilinear designs; several roundels of beads have disc-shaped glass bead centers; l. 1.19 M.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Cape, accession number 5-13266, described as Cape., Tanzania, Masai. 5-13266, acc no. 3321. File code: 2.1 Donor: Dr. Harold B. Van Maren. Materials, techniques: Glass "seed" beads; glass ornaments; ocher-stained lather Context of use: Garment. Description: Cape; ocher-stained leather trimmed with varicolored "seed" beads in linear and curvilinear designs; several roundels of beads have disc-shaped glass bead centers; l. 1.19 M.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cape, accession number 5-13266, described as Cape., Tanzania, Masai. 5-13266, acc no. 3321. File code: 2.1 Donor: Dr. Harold B. Van Maren. Materials, techniques: Glass "seed" beads; glass ornaments; ocher-stained lather Context of use: Garment. Description: Cape; ocher-stained leather trimmed with varicolored "seed" beads in linear and curvilinear designs; several roundels of beads have disc-shaped glass bead centers; l. 1.19 M.

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