- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Tool for making cord used for amulets. [El.B 18/06/2010]
- Long description
- Tool for making cord used for amulets. Consisting of a forked stick with a thin wooden rod between the prongs. Red wool string is wound around each fork and looped around the rod, by this process the string is made along the rod. There is a length of finished string in red, green and black. Much of the fork is enclosed in a pocket of cotton textile, pulled tight where the prongs separate and then widening. This pocket is stitched with red wool and painted with thin brown lines. [El.B 18/06/2010]
- Cultural groups
- Hausa
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1931
- Date collected
- By 1931
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1931
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Textile, Material Wool Yarn Animal, Material Rope, Process Stitched, Process Wound, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 285 mm, Width: max 127 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1931.35.1
1931.35.1
Tool for making cord used for amulets. [El.B 18/06/2010]
1931.35.1
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