Catalogue Card for ETH.ANG 3.503

Item

Title

Catalogue Card for ETH.ANG 3.503

Description

<No.>A37/503 O.N.1094b</No.>
<Object>Baby carrier (odikwa ye embe - okana kondunga)</Object>
<Origin>Owangwe district
Kwanyama tribe.</Origin>
<Description>Piece of cattle skin turned over at one end (the top). and wide, thick thongs sewn down the sides with a fibre strip. Decorated with pendant strings of embe fruit stones (in a double layer). The strings are held together by a horizontal string.
L:33cm; W20.5cm. T16<Description>

Publisher

Making African Connections

Format

Catalogue Card

Identifier

MAC_PCM_ICGD_ETH.ANG3.503

Source

The Powell-Cotton Museum

Relation

Dolls baby carrier made from cattle skin; decorated with pendant strings of embe fruit stones (in a double layer).

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust

Item sets

PCM archival collections