Armlet

NameArmlet

CultureShilluk, White Nile

Place madeSudan, Africa

MediumFibre, beads

Dimensions5 × 22 × 1/8 in. (12.7 × 55.8801 × 0.3175 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Florence Dibell Bartlett, A.1955.86.885

Object numberA.1955.86.885

Collections

The Florence Dibell Bartlett Collection

DescriptionWhite, red, yellow, black beads strung on fiber. Alternating areas of white beads (4) and black, yellow, and red beads in linear design. Armlet, seemingly unfinished at extremities. A white ground broken by bands of black, yellow, red beads in combinations of all black, black and white, red, and yellow. The fibre is twisted resembles rows of natural brown beads between each double row of beadwork in the horizontal bands. The vertical strands, filled with white beads, all black beads.