triangular pubic leather apron with punched patterns, decorated with a bunch of leather strings with light blue glass beads, attached to leather belt embroidered with cowrie shells in two rows, l: 15 cm, was worn by women; additional: claw-shaped metal chain links, attached to a yellow beaded string, fragment of an apron as worn by young women of the Kirdi, l: 14 cm
Lit.: Northern, Tamara, The Art of Cameroon, Washington D.C. 1984, p. 197
Continent: Africa

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