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Container made from a gourd decorated with hide strings threaded with glass beads (white, red, pink) and cowrie shells half coated in wax (?). The gourd is incised all over with geometric and anthromorphic designs and is inset with two small blue beads. It has a wax (?) stopper with coiled metal wire and metal chains.

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