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.
Comparing literature
Bouttiaux, Anne-Marie u.a., African costumes and textiles from the Berbers to the Zulus, o. O. 2008, ill. 179