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?Waist belt - very old - ornamented with pear-shaped sections of white shell, also cowrie and other ground shells. Back of Chung country. [Three kinds of shells used. The decoration in ?madder is a kind of embroidery. The vertical red lines (left and centre) may be dog's hair. Different kinds of beads are used to hold in the shells: Indian cylindrical (amber, ?coral, and other kinds), and some glass, rounded, European trade beads. Hansjorg Mayer: Konyak.] |
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