- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Beadwork triangle with piece of hair attached. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 12/7/2005]
- Cultural groups
- Khoe-San
- Person
- Field collector Antoinette Powell-Cotton
- Field collector Diana Powell-Cotton
- PRM source Antoinette Powell-Cotton
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1936
- Date collected
- 1936 - 1937
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1940
- Dimensions
- Length: max 40 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1940.7.81 Other numbers: 37.2088
Search terms: Ornament, Bead, Hair Ornament
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