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Woman’s Front Waist Garment or Cache-sexe

Kapsiki, 1900-1932

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Kapsiki

Woman’s Front Waist Garment or Cache-sexe

Kapsiki, 1900-1932

Physical Qualities Glass beads, cowrie shells, string, 19 h x 47.5 L (w/o the ties) cm.
Credit Line Anonymous Gift
Object Number 2002.118
Beadwork in pattern of nested diamond shapes in a single row, in red, dark green, yellow, dark blue, light green and orange; with fringe of cowrie shells and blue beads, with two red beads.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2002; Howard and Jane Cohen, Baltimore
Moraga, Vanessa Drake. "Their Own Fantastic Universe: Ceremonial Cache-Sexes of the Bana Guili Kirdi. Hali, Issue 162, Winter 2009: 74-76.

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