Girdle
37-22-152
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-152 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Glass | Fiber |
| Description | Band of netted beadwork of glass beads; mainly alternating chevrons of green and coral colour. At one end is a coral-coloured triangle; at the other, five transverse stripes of coral colour followed by two small triangles and an irregular quincunx of short transverse stripes, all in coral on the green ground. See 37-22-69 (girl's costume) |
| Length | 72 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 62 - Collector Number |
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