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Object Name9 Beads

Made FromGlass

Date1880-1950

SizeSee Individual Records

Accession Number71.3.48

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Place Made

Africa

Physical DescriptionYellow, green, grey glass. A) Akosu type - double bicone with a green body on a grey rough core. All beads so worn as to leave traces only of equatorial band. Five of these beads have a system of four sets of brown, yellow and red longitudinal stripes, one bead has three sets of stripes only, brown, white and red and brown, white and darker green, Krobo people. B) Akosu type - short bicone, yellow body on a grey core with green equatorial band and a system of brown, red, brown, or brown, blue, brown longitudinal stripes.
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