Bead dress
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
1932
Materials
Glass, Gut
Measurements
250 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Sudan
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303931
Summary
One of two Dinka women's 'dresses' comprising single strings of blue beads, each with small sections of red and white beads. Lord Egerton's number 282G. Associated label. Collected 8th March 1932. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton in Sudan, 8th March 1932.
Marks and inscriptions
Associated label. Dinka woman's dress. I took it off her and gave her 41/2d for it. 282G. 8/3/32.