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Object Name9 Stringed Krobo Beads

Made FromGlass

Date1920-1970

Place MadeGhana

SizeOverall W: 3.5 cm, D: 3.1 cm

Accession Number70.3.106 A

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern
Postwar and Contemporary

Not On View

Physical DescriptionYellow, blue, red, yellow-orange Glass. Adiagba: 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.
Provenance

Former Collection H. Alastair Lamb - 1970