Girdle
33-40-1
From: Africa
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 33-40-1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Africa |
| Date Made | 1933 |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Glass | Leather | Shell |
| Description | Made of cowry shells and green, red, yellow, blue and white glass beads, on netting, with a fringe of narrow strips of leather. Said to be "worn in the hula-hula dance by young women in Hawaii". A modern introduction. |
| Length | 86 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Laura Bell, 1933 |
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