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Object Name3 Beads
Made FromGlass
Date1880-1950
Place Madepossibly Africa
SizeSee Individual Records
Accession Number70.3.77
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionGreen, grey, yellow, red, brown glass. (A) Akosu type - short bicone with green body with a grey core visible in several places. Yellow equatorial bands almost worn away. System of four sets of longitudinal slightly diagonal stripes in red, yellow and brown; (B) Akosu type - short bicone, yellow ground with green equatorial band and system of red, green and brown longitudinal stripes; (C) Akosu type - short bicone, orange body with three sets of diagonal longitudinal stripes in red, pink and red.
Provenance
Source H. Alastair Lamb - 1970