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Kuba

Ceremonial Belt (Yet) for Mbwoota Mbwaak

1959-1968

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Kuba

Ceremonial Belt (Yet) for Mbwoota Mbwaak

Kuba

Ceremonial Belt (Yet) for Mbwoota Mbwaak

1959-1968

Physical Qualities Hide, leather, beads, fiber, cowrie shells, 50 3/4 × 9 in. (128.9 × 22.9 cm.)
Credit Line The Amy Gould/Matthew Polk Fund
Object Number 2021.211
The Baltimore Museum of Art, by purchase, 2021; Jeff Spurr of Cambridge, MA, by purchase, 2007-2021; Mikoom Yemaam of Maryland, by gift, 1970s-2007; Mbwoota Mbwaak, by commission, 1960s-1970s.

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