bead

Object Name6 Beads

Made FromGlass

Date1880-1950

Place MadeGhana

SizeAverage W: 1.8 cm, D: 1.4 cm

Accession Number71.3.48 A

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern
Postwar and Contemporary

Not On View

Physical DescriptionYellow, green, grey glass. 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.
Provenance

Former Collection H. Alastair Lamb - 1971