Girdle
Item
Title
Girdle
Creator
Unrecorded
Description
Physical Description: Girdle with a coil of blue, red, and white beadwork featuring triangular designs, attached to a strip of brown hide, at the centre. From this hangs a heavy fringe of closely knotted tassels of string made from plant fibre and dyed a deep red-brown. There are also 8 pairs of green beaded strings attached to the central coil, evenly spaced among the tassels.
Publisher
Making African Connections
Date
Pre 1910
Type
PhysicalObject
Format
Whole: 370 mm x 500 mm x 50 mm
Plant fibre; Leather
Identifier
R998
Source
Purchased from commercial dealer James Biddle, of 38 Meeting House Lane, Brighton, in 1910.
Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
Pre 1910
Space/Place
Botswana, Southern Africa, Africa
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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