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Superb skirt or apron hand beaded with amazing multi colors yellow ,black, red.and green ,
depicting diamond design 20" w …
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Superb skirt or apron hand beaded with amazing multi colors yellow ,black, red.and green ,
depicting diamond design 20" w by 1/2 d by 8" h can be framed or hanged as is on your wall ...
Among some Cameroon groups, women simply wore pubic aprons also known as 'caches sexes’ in various writings (literally - ‘to hide the sex’) until approximately 1961, when governmental restrictions required women to be fully clothed. However the tradition continues in a number of ornate beaded forms worn today.
Living in the area of the Mandara mountains, Matakam women of northern Cameroon wore pubic aprons made of small iron strips covering the sex and held in place by a belt of fiber
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- Dimensions
- 8ʺW × 20ʺL × 1ʺH
- Styles
- African
- Traditional
- Pattern
- Geometric
- Period
- 1970s
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Fiber
- Hide
- Iron
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Green
- Condition Notes
- good good less
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