Bandolier
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Oct 2014
name: label: Collector
content: Allen Davis
label: Donor Name
content: Allen Davis
notes: label: Notes
content: Mimbuuntsh. Bandolier worn over the shoulders. Source: Joseph Cornet, Art Royal Kuba Milan: Grfica Sipiel Milano, 1982. pg 224
label: Notes
content: Torso bands with multiple strands of beads, blue and white antique beads with cowries on raffia cords. Registers of 6 strands of alternating blue and white beads gathered, interspersed with 4 registers of knots between 4 cowries; rare forms; interesting for comparison of repeat patterns with differing blue and white beads and single versus multiple beads. Multiple strands of smaller darker blue and white beads arranged as 4 blue alternating with 4 white beads; single wrapped half shell embellished with vertical cowries; opposite a cluster of multiple strands of 5 blue beads forming tubular mass pendant in shape of corn cob section.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Nov 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kuba
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2066766
label: USNM Number
content: E433633-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bandolier
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 62.5 cm
label: Width
content: 10 cm
label: Height
content: 4 cm