Red Waist Beads
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Oct 2015
label: Collection Date
content: 1951 to 1952
name: label: Collector
content: Betty Messenger
label: Collector
content: John Messenger
label: Donor Name
content: Betty Messenger
notes: label: Notes
content: Cotton loop with thin flat red plastic beads threaded on it. Donor says that these were "worn by fattening girls".
label: Notes
content: See: John Messenger Field Notes, pp. 90 and 184, in the National Anthropological Archives.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Apr 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Nigeria, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Anang Ibibio
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2071478
label: USNM Number
content: E433695-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Waist Ornament
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 47 cm
label: Width
content: 7 cm
label: Height
content: 1 cm