Leather strap made of two thin strips decorated with metal bands and conus shell

Item

Title

Leather strap made of two thin strips decorated with metal bands and conus shell

Creator

Creator Unrecorded

Subject

Ornament

Description

Conus strap. Thin brown leather strap made of two strips, each decorated with alternating bands of brass and copper metal pressed flat around the leather. At one end there is a larger flat piece of brass holding the two strips together and the rounded flat end of a white conus shell tied with leather thong through a hole in the shell.

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

c.1930

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Animal; Leather; Skin

Identifier

ETH.ANG3.308 .2
A37/308

Source

Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton
1937

Space/Place

Angola
Africa

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust