Bag

Museum number:
5-823
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.988
Description:
The hollow skin is stiffened by a horn inside and by fat. Welk shells decorate it. Worn up to 1917. Now worn only ceremonially.
Donor:
University of California African Expedition
Collection place:
Namibia
Verbatim coll. place:
Kuanyama Ambo
Culture or time period:
Kuanyama Ambo
Collector:
Edwin M. Loeb, Ella-Marie Loeb, and University of California African Expedition
Collection date:
Spring 1948
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
1949
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 5-823, described as The hollow skin is stiffened by a horn inside and by fat. Welk shells decorate it. Worn up to 1917. Now worn only ceremonially.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 5-823, described as The hollow skin is stiffened by a horn inside and by fat. Welk shells decorate it. Worn up to 1917. Now worn only ceremonially.

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