headband (head ornament)

Headband made predominantly of strings of green, red, white, blue and orange beads, with occasional green plastic spacers. There is a strip of leather at the back, and a shaped piece of leather at the front, with beads and a button attached to it.
Headband. Worn every day, especially at ceremonies and feasts. She (the manufacturer) used to have one when she was a girl but she removed the alluminium pendant when she married, but it got broken so she made herself this one. String of red beads uppermost and button downwards. (Cr. 4). Made by married women.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
1972.45
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 15 x 155 x 230 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
leather; wire; beads; plastic
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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