African Tribal Art - Beaded cache-sex, Kirdi, Cameroon

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African Tribal Art - Beaded cache-sex, Kirdi, Cameroon

A beaded cache-sex from the Kirdi tribe of Northern Cameroon/Eastern Nigeria. This one is loaded with cowrie shells along the lower edge and has a simple geometric pattern in very tiny glass beads, so finely strung that it is nearly transparent. This would have been worn by a young, unmarried girl. It measures 8” wide.  Mid-20th century. #3105  SOLD
 

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