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Ancient, antique and ethnographic textiles
 Africa

 

 

479 LEG BAND CURRENCY
(CENTRAL) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
EKONDA PEOPLE  Early 20th century
Brass, 10½” X 5½”
may have been given as a valued object by a young man as ‘bride price worn by a woman around her lower leg