Beadvest · Sudan, Dinka · ID: 3034328
sold
EUR 500
Size
H: 102 cm
H: 40.2 inch
Description
coloured miniature beads, cloth, cowrie snails, good condition, metal socle;
young Dinka men are squeezed into tight corsets decorated with glass beads whose combination of colours indicates the wearer’s age group. The height of the dorsal projection is in proportion to the family’s wealth, calculated in hight of livestock.
The object Beadvest with the object ID 3034328 was last part of the auction 72nd tribal art auction at March 9, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 253 achieved a sales price of EUR 500.
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Comparing literature
Bouttiaux, Anne-Marie u.a., African costumes and textiles from the Berbers to the Zulus, o. O. 2008, ill. 179