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Woman’s Front Waist Ornament

Unknown, 1933-1966

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San

Woman’s Front Waist Ornament

Unknown, 1933-1966

Physical Qualities Hide, ostrich egg shell beads, glass beads, 16.5 x 23 (w/o straps) x 1.8 cm.
Credit Line Gift of Carolyn Barnes, Alexandria, Virginia, in Memory of Murvil and Katherine Barnes
Object Number 1998.593
Woman's front waist ornament in semicircular shape, with edging of ostrich egg shell beads, fringe at the top of eight strands of ostrich egg shell beads, and two small circles of glass beads in red, light blue, white and yellow.

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2000–2000

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