Catalogue card: Emieku. Girdles of small coconut discs and brass knobs. The brass bangles are called elodi or igegode, the discs akbolu and the material of which they are made iriakbulu
A girdle made from coconut shell disc beads and small copper alloy beads. The copper alloy beads are shaped like small faceted balls on a ring and the coconut shell has been cut into regular discs with a hole drilled through the middle. The beads are strung onto fibre and there is a knot at one end with the ends hanging loose.
Emieku; Elodi; Igegode; Akbolu; Iriakbulu. A girdle made from coconut shell disc beads and small copper alloy beads. The copper alloy beads are shaped like small faceted balls on a ring and the coconut shell has been cut into regular discs with a hole drilled through the middle. The beads are strung onto fibre and there is a knot at one end with the ends hanging loose.
Luggage tag attached with string reads: '156 / 156a | Girdle (emieku) of brass bangles (elodi or igegodi) and rings (akbolu) of nuts (iviakbolu) / Bini'