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1934.8.45

Fibre fringe apron on a narrow hide belt [RTS 16/9/2005].

1934.8.45

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Collection type
Object
Description
Fibre fringe apron on a narrow hide belt [RTS 16/9/2005].
Long description
Fringe apron consisting of a narrow dark brown hide belt (Pantone Black 4C), perforated at either end and sewn onto a rectangular fringe body with hide cord. The body has been made from bundles of twisted hide cord, doubled over at the top and arranged side by side with the loose ends hanging down to form a thick fringe. The upper part of each bundle is quite stiff, and may have been formed over some kind of core material, tightly bound round with cord, with the bundles sewn together to form a thick waist band using a combination of cord and narrow hide thongs. The base of each fringe has been knotted. The apron is nearly complete, but several of the fringe strips have broken and are fraying and the hide surface is flaking. The body has also been coated with ochre, giving it a reddish brown colour (Pantone 7516C). It has a weight of 250.3 grams, with a total length of 370 mm; the hide belt is 16 mm wide and 1.5 mm thick; the fringe body is 300 mm wide and 160 mm long, and the fringe cords have a diameter of 1.5 mm [RTS 16/9/2005].
Geographical reference
South Sudan
Africa > Eastern Africa > South Sudan
Bahr el Jebel Peridi
Cultural groups
Bari (Nilotic)
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1933
Date collected
9th February 1933
Acquisition information
Donated: 1934
Materials and processes
Material Animal Hide Skin, Process Perforated, Process Bound, Process Twisted, Process Knotted
Dimensions
Width: max 320 mm, Length: max 130 mm, Weight 250.3 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1934.8.45 Other numbers: 204
Research and responses

While the location of Peridi has to be established, both Mongalla and Ngangala are in the modern administrative district of Bahr el Jebel, Southern Sudan. The coordinates given by Powell-Cotton suggest it lies west of Mongalla. For similar fringe aprons, see 1934.8.46 and 1940.7.09-10, also from the Bari [RTS 16/9/2005].

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