- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Opaque white and beige banded barrel shaped agate bead. [SM 13/10/2010]
- Geographical reference
- Northern Darfur El Fasher Northeastern Nigeria Adamawa
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1935
- Date collected
- 1935
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 26/10/1971
- Materials and processes
- Material Bead, Material Agate Stone, Process Perforated, Process Ground
- Dimensions
- Width: max 17 mm, Length: max 25 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1971.15.624
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