Girdle

Item

Title

Girdle

Creator

Unrecorded

Description

Physical Description: Girdle made from braided grass and leather. It has rows of brass button studs along the length and red, white, blue and green beads on the leather tassles. There are pyramid-shaped buttons at the end of the tassles.

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

Pre 1913

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Whole: 40 mm x 1850 mm x 30 mm
Glass; Metal; Brass; Leather

Identifier

R1346/6

Source

Collection of 6 items from Bechuanaland purchased from furniture dealer Henry Faulkner, of 15 Gloucester Place, Brighton, in 1913.
Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
Pre 1913

Space/Place

Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa

Rights

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

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