Belt made from blue and red beads and cowrie shells, threaded onto wire and sewn onto a cow leather belt with goatskin thread. Strings of blue, green and yellow beads hang from the belt, with aluminium disc-shaped pendants made of metal from a goat sufuria (a cooking vessel). The belt was worn for decoration with the pendants worn at front. One red and white bead string has a medallion from the church mission, used because it saved them making another disc from the sufuria. It would have been worn by girls aged from four to eight years, and made by women.
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