apron;
dress
- Museum number
- Af1947,16.34
- Description
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Composite apron or dress of cylindrical brass beads connected by leather and string, two leather suspension thongs with dark blue glass beads, then two strings of cylindrical brass beads. Used by young women.
- Dimensions
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Height: 25.50 centimetres (apron)
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Length: 230 centimetres (thongs & strings)
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Width: 27 centimetres (apron)
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Width: 1.30 centimetres (thongs & strings)
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Depth: 3 centimetres (apron)
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Depth: 1.30 centimetres (thongs & strings)
- Curator's comments
- Reproduced by C W Hobley, 'A-Kamba and other east African tribes', 1910, plate IV.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1947
- Acquisition notes
- Register 1947:
Collected by the late C W Hobley, CMG, probably all between 1890 and 1910 by which date he had formed his "museum".
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1947,16.34