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Object Name10 Krobo Beads

Made FromGlass

Date1920-1970

Place MadeGhana

SizeSee Individual Records

Accession Number70.3.106

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern
Postwar and Contemporary

Not On View

Physical DescriptionYellow, blue, red, yellow-orange Glass. Adiagba: (A) large barrel shape to spherical with yellow ground, no core. Various arrangements of longitudinal stripes of blue and red. Some of these beads have blue dots around their equatorial circumference; (B) roughly spherical, yellow/orange body with rough decoration of brown horizontal stripes crossing short green longitudinal one.
Provenance

Source H. Alastair Lamb - 1970