Metal ornament

Museum number:
5-4232
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2037
Description:
Female pubic ornament (madzoad); iron strips bound together in roughly triangular shape with twined bast fiber cordage at apex and bent around wire loop at base; L. 17.5 cm.
Donor:
Paul Hinderling and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Mokolo, North Region, Cameroon
Verbatim coll. place:
N. Cameroon; Mokolo; Mafa tribe
Culture or time period:
Mafa tribe
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baskets (containers) and Twined weaving
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Metal ornament, accession number 5-4232, described as Female pubic ornament (madzoad); iron strips bound together in roughly triangular shape with twined bast fiber cordage at apex and bent around wire loop at base; L. 17.5 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Metal ornament, accession number 5-4232, described as Female pubic ornament (madzoad); iron strips bound together in roughly triangular shape with twined bast fiber cordage at apex and bent around wire loop at base; L. 17.5 cm.

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