- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Fibre string girdle of plaits held together by a brass tube. Coated in a white / grey pigment on the plait. [ASh [OPS move] 13/12/2016]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1942
- Date collected
- By 1942
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1942
- Materials and processes
- Material String, Material Plant Fibre, Material Brass Metal, Material Pigment, Process Plaited, Process Bent
- Dimensions
- Width: max 211 mm, Length: max 248 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1942.13.1526 Other numbers: 168 a-d
Search terms: Ornament, Waist Ornament
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