cache-sexe (loin cloth)

Beaded loin cloth/cache sex; two yellow fish and white plant forms on an orange ground; band of green ground with white plant forms along one edge; seed beads strung on brown cotton warp elements and secured by a brown cotton weft (placed after each row of beads); warp elements folded over lengths of cotton �string� to start the weaving�continuous tie ends extend beyond the beading; at bottom or weaving, groups of four and five warp ends gathered and passed through a larger blue glass bead; two groups of warp ends extending beyond the larger glass bead, pass through a cowrie shell with its top cut off and are knotted to hold the shell in place.