Zemanek-Münster

Chief's belt

Ghana, Akan
not available anymore
Provenance
Robert Duperrier, Paris, France (1973)
Jean-Pierre Laprugne, Paris, France
Size
L: 76,5 cm
B: 6 cm
L: 30.1 inch
B: 2.4 inch

Description

bark cloth, coated with velvet in night-blue, decorated with four wooden emblems covered with gold foil, traces of old age, worn-out, some tears and small holes, colour faded, rep. in two places


Comparing literature

Ross, Doran H., Gold of the Akan from the Glassell Collection, Houston 2002, p. 230, 8.13

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