Waist belt made from a strip of palm leaf with scratched diamond decoration and frayed ends

Item

Title

Waist belt made from a strip of palm leaf with scratched diamond decoration and frayed ends

Creator

Creator Unrecorded

Subject

Belt

Description

Girl's waist belt for fastening aprons. Made from a flat strip of palm leaf with scratched decoration on the outside creating a textured pattern of dark diamond or triangle shapes. The ends are frayed and twisted into string ties.

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

c.1930

Type

PhysicalObject

Identifier

ETH.ANG3.3
A37/3

Source

Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton
1937

Space/Place

Angola
Africa

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust