String of Cowries

Unidentified Baganda maker

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late 19th-early 20th century

String and cowries

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

39.64.6892

Geography

Place Made: Uganda, Eastern Africa, Africa

Period

19th century

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Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Provenance

Collection of Mrs. Bazett (possibly Mrs. Mary Ann Sampson Bazett (1837-unknown), mother of Mary Bazett Leakey (1866-1948), one of the four Bazett sisters who were Missionaries in East Africa); given to the Museum and Art Gallery Reading, England, date unknown; sold to present collection, 1939.

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