Dance Apron

68-12-1

From: Admiralty Islands

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 68-12-1
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Admiralty Islands
Section Oceanian
Materials Shell | Plant Fiber | Seed | Feather | Pod
Description

Woven apron (?) of vegetable fiber with traces of feather decoration, and large panel of discoidal shell beads, coconut (?) shell beads, with Job's tears seeds (Coix) and rattles of an unfamiliar seed pod. From the David Wilson Mansion in Odessa, Delaware (She is on their Board of Trustees).

Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Charles Lee Reese, 1968

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